 | Gilbert Keith Chesterton - 1910 - 400 sider
...Ages. Rather mankind has retreated from the Middle Ages in reaction and rout. ( The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult ; and left untried. ; It is, of course, the same in the ease of the French Revolution. A great part of our... | |
 | Charles Hanford Henderson - 1914 - 494 sider
...lengthening lifetime I have met a wholly inconsiderable number. As Chesterton puts it, "The Christian ideal has not been tried, and found wanting. It has been found difficult, and left untried." The obstacle is not, as a rule, in any failure of good feeling. The majority of people... | |
 | Edward David Jones - 1914 - 296 sider
...want of living thought about its present affairs." "The Christian ideal, ' ' says GK Chesterton, ' ' has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. ' ' The same may be said of many cultural ideals. The word "unselfishness" means to small... | |
 | Wallace Martin Short - 1915 - 184 sider
...know the meaning of life dare to teach or practice. A modern prophet has said "the Christian ideal has not been tried, and found wanting. It has been found difficult, and left untried." So it is. We have not dared yet to trust our religion and to put in practice our faith.... | |
 | Foreign Missions Conference of North America - 1916 - 388 sider
...penitence in all the churches throughout Europe, the war can never be laid to the charge of the faith. "Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult, and not tried." In the early days of Protestant missions, with an audacity and a passion beyond all praise, the missionaries... | |
 | Edward Arthur Burroughs - 1917 - 426 sider
...Christianity but atheism, in all its forms, that has failed. Christianity, in Mr. GK Chesterton's epigram, " has not been tried and found wanting ; it has been found difficult, and not tried ". PART II. " MAN'S EXTREMITY GOD'S OPPORTUNITY." God the strong, God the beneficent, God ever-mindful... | |
 | Frederick Brodie Macnutt - 1919 - 488 sider
...stages of the evolution of the Kingdom of God. In the words of Mr. Chesterton's oft-quoted dictum, " Christianity has not been tried and found wanting ; it has been found difficult and not tried." There are many signs that the time has come, and that men see that the time has come, to make the experiment... | |
 | Oscar L. Joseph - 1919 - 300 sider
...claims upon the life of our own day. Chesterton characteristically remarked : " The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. Men have not got tired of Christianity; they have never found enough Christianity to... | |
 | Agnes Repplier - 1920 - 296 sider
...ourselves, — a harassing and importunate 78 demand. Mr. Chesterton spoke but the truth when he said that Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult, and not tried. Cecil's conclusions anent the unconcern of the Gospels with forms of government were, strangely enough,... | |
 | John Henry Jowett - 1920 - 262 sider
...the way that leadeth unto life. — MATTHEW 7 : 13, 14. One of our most suggestive thinkers has said: "Christianity has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found difficult and not tried." So many men prefer the easier road, and have turned their back on the road of constraint and difficulty.... | |
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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried. 
