Daily Inspiration Quote by Chester Brown

The joke lands because it treats the Gospels like a half-read graphic novel left on the nightstand: sincere enough to be plausible, casual enough to be insulting. “I’m planning on” is the language of procrastination and soft commitments, the kind you make about a gym membership or a long classic you “mean to get to.” Applied to the foundational texts of Christianity, it collapses sacred urgency into everyday scheduling, a tiny act of desacralization that still avoids open contempt.

Chester Brown’s wording also carries a cartoonist’s eye for deflation. The Gospels are, in cultural terms, among the most “already known” books in the West. Claiming you haven’t “finished” them plays on the gap between public familiarity (Christmas scenes, parables, crucifixion iconography) and private literacy. It needles a common modern posture: religion as ambient wallpaper rather than practiced discipline. The implied speaker isn’t an atheist crusader; he’s the polite secular neighbor who keeps meaning to understand what everyone keeps referencing.

Context matters because Brown’s career sits right where autobiography, moral inquiry, and taboo meet. Alternative comics trained readers to expect candor and revisionist takes on institutions; “at some point” sounds like that ethos applied to scripture itself. The subtext: belief is no longer a default inheritance but an elective reading project, postponed amid the clutter of modern attention. It’s a throwaway line that doubles as a diagnosis of contemporary spiritual life: not rejection, just drift.