K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
pride thunder
Take not thy thunder from us, but take away our pride.
cosmos would-be hammers
How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.
fashion months bears
The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.
gold sometimes silver
Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold ... that is, in large quantities.
strong children ideas
Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms [the child] to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless enemies have enemies in the knights of God, that there is something in the universe more mystical than darkness, and stronger than strong fear.
issues principles moral
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
defeated disadvantages conqueror
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.
people impossible socialism
People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.
two luxury different
Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
goodness symbols
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God
men tea finals
I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.
believe giving world
Every one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on the earth. Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.
adventure born supreme
The supreme adventure is being BORN
hope believe mean
Faith means believing the unbelievable.