The Wonder of G.K. Chesterton

What makes Gilbert Keith Chesterton so wonderful is that he is full of wonder. He doesn't merely see trees, or clouds or sky; he sees glorious creatures charged with what Gerard Manley Hopkins called the grandeur of God. He sees that seeing is itself a miracle. "Give me miraculous eyes to see my eyes," he writes. "Those rolling mirrors made alive in me, terrible crystals more incredible, than all the things they see."