G. K. Chesterton

If you have never read any G. K. Chesterton I recommend two books: Orthodoxy, and St. Francis of Assisi. Chesterton writes incredible insights into the life. He takes a while to get there sometimes, but when he does it is worth the journey. Here is an excerpt from St. Francis of Assisi which is as good an example as any of why I love him and he is worth reading:

"If a man saw the world upside down, with all the trees and towers hanging
head downwards as in a pool, one effect would be to emphasise the idea of
dependence. There is a Latin and literal connection; for the very word
dependence only means hanging. It would make vivid the Scriptural text
which says that God has hung the world upon nothing. If St. Francis had
seen, in one of his strange dreams, the town of Assisi upside down, it need
not have differed in a single detainl from itself except in being entirely
the other way round. But the point is this: that whereas to the normal eye
the large masonry of its walls or the massive foundations of its watchtowers
and its high citadel would make it seem safer and more permanent, the moment
it was turned over the very same weight would make it seem more helpless and
more in peril...St Francis might love his little town as much as before, or
more than before; but the nature of the love would be altered even in being
increased. He might see and love every tile on the steep roofs or every
bird on the battlements; but he would see them all in a new and divine light
of eternal danger and dependence. Instead of being merely proud of his
strong city because it could not be moved, he would be thankful to God
Almighty that it had not been dropped; he would be thankful to God for not
dropping the whole cosmos like a vast crystal to be shattered into falling
stars. Perhaps St. Peter saw the world so, when he was crucified
head-downwards.:

Then later:
"He who has seen the whole world hanging on a hair of the mercy of God has
seen the truth; we might almost say the cold truth. He who has seen the
vision of his city upside down has seen it the right way up."