G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)AuthorApologistWitChampion of Common Sense“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.” Gilbert Keith Chesterton stands to this day as one of the great minds and thinkers, not only in the realm of Christian apologetics and literature but in history. He was, literally, a mountain of a man (6’ 4”, 185 lbs) whose profundity, brilliance and wit was manifested in paradox; the turning and twisting of commonplace thoughts and ideas inside out and upside down until they became meditations reaching to the limits of human thought. Chesterton was the happiest of warriors, a sparkling and infectiously jolly man whose joie de combat (love of the fight) was tempered by the fact he not only respected other towering intellects with contrary opinions, he was genuinely fond of them as well. Chesterton was born in the Kensington section of London and, was by his own account a not very bright boy who dabbled in the o