K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
family christian prayer
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
said idiotic offers
Your offer," he said, "is far too idiotic to be declined.
eye two hands
Here ends another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands and the great world around me. Tomorrow begins another day. Why am I allowed two?
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
faith moral sanity
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
forgotten
Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.
artist creative criticism
The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.
book writing years
For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their whole world, and stories about what it is like to be married, and plays about the important problems of modern times. Tommy, being only ten years old, was not able to do harm on this large and handsome scale.
catholic doubt gone
It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
wine glasses catholic
The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.
fear men blessing
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
children enough dare
That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.
men personality enemy
It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might have wavered in their allegiance under this oppression of a great personality. . . . But this was a kind of modern meanness to which Syme could not sink even in his extreme morbidity. Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not coward enough to admire it.
men views two
He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a tower before ten thousand people and tell them that twice two is four.