Quotes to Remember

 I read this today in Orthodoxy and thought it worth its own post - nothing further to be said; other than that I whole-heartedly agree, I have seen it now in my own daughters, and I believe it is this that Jesus references when he says:

 “Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven."

Think of all the men who stick up their noses to monotony because they simply are not strong enough to exult in it. 

G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy: "It might be true that the sun rises regularly because he never gets tired of rising. His routine might be due, not to lifelessness, but to a rush of life. The thing I mean can be seen, for instance, in children, when they find some game or joke that they specially enjoy. A child kicks his legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "do it again"; and the grown up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, and has never gotten tired of making them. It may be that he has the eternal appetite of infancy: For we have sinned and grown old, and our father is younger than we. The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore."