Abolish religion if you like. Throw everything on secular government if you like. But do not be surprised if a machinery that was never meant to do anything but secure external decency and order fails to secure internal honesty and peace.
– G. K. Chesterton
Tag: g.k. chesterton
“Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.”
— G.K. Chesterton (via traveling-magpie)
“Christianity never promised that it would impose universal peace. It had a great deal too much respect for personal liberty.”
– G. K. Chesterton,
Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.
– G. K. Chesterton
“A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.”
— G.K. Chesterton
“All men can be criminals, if tempted; all men can be heroes, if inspired.”
— G.K. Chesterton
“…to the end of his [G.K.C] days he hated to have his work read by anyone else when he was present, and to have it read aloud was torture for him.
[Once], when someone proposed to read aloud from [the Ballad of the White Horse] to a company of friends, its author seized the book, kicked it under an arm-chair, sat in the chair, and defied anyone to rescue his masterpiece.”
— E.C. Bentley
I was confused at just how this was suppose to be effective, but then remembered Chesterton weighed like 300 pounds
SOMEONE DRAW THIS
“A martyr is a man who cares so much for something outside him, that he forgets his own personal life.”
— G.K. Chesterton
“The Church always seems to behind the times, when it is really beyond the times.”
— G.K. Chesterton (via catherine-of-alexandria)
“The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.”
— G.K. Chesterton
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