Alone upon the earth, and lifted and liberated from all the wheels and whirlpools of the earth, stands up the faith of Saint Thomas weighted and balanced indeed with more than Oriental metaphysics and more than Pagan pomp and pageantry; but vitally and vividly alone in declaring that life is a living story, with a great beginning and a great close; rooted in the primeval joy of God and finding its fruition in the final happiness of humanity; opening with the colossal chorus in which the sons of God shouted for joy, and ending in that mystical comradeship, shown in a shadowy fashion in those ancient words that move like an archaic dance; “For His delight is with the sons of men.”
-- G.K. Chesterton, quoted from his biographical work "St. Thomas Aquinas".
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