1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 G.K. Chesterton never lost his outrage at true injustice, yet when a woman called him a coward for not being at the front in World War I, he answered with a joke about his own size. Grettelyn Darkey and Joe Grabowski trace how he held both, through his portrait of St. Francis chasing a leper he had recoiled from and his insistence in&amp;nbsp;Orthodoxy that a man fighting sin must be not a patient but an impatient.&amp;nbsp; In This Episode: The formula G.K. Chesterton helps unpack: be impatient with injustice when others suffer it, and patient when you suffer it yourself How Chesterton’s St. Francis kept the impatience of a young man who dreamed of fame as a soldier, and used it on errands of mercy Why Chesterton said a man may lie still to be cured of a malady, but must get up and jump about violently to be cured of a sin Why Chesterton held that the rational optimist fails Chesterton’s challenge: can a man hate the world enough to change it, yet love it enough to think it worth changing? Resources Mentioned: St. Francis of Assisi by G.K. Chesterton Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton FOLLOW US Instagram Facebook X SUPPORT Consider making a donation Visit our Shop Chapters: 00:00: Holy impatience and righteous anger 04:44: Impatient for others, patient for ourselves 11:51: Rage bait, the currency of our culture 17:22: What makes anger righteous? 18:43: Francis the Fighter 22:15: “A certain precipitancy was the very poise of his soul” 27:50: Anger as an opportunity cost 30:32: Chesterton’s own anger, and where it veered 32:42: Orthodoxy: not a patient, but an impatient 33:55: Easy on ourselves, no quarter to the enemy 38:05: The Buddhist saint and the Christian saint 41:26: “A fierce delight and a fiercer discontent” Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios Uncommon Sense https://sites.libsyn.com/23918/site <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/43362509/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/content/207839249