K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
men errors passing
Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.
sacrifice animal worship
Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.
men long heaven
As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind.
latin greek ignorant
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant
children men catholic
The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.
dream kings men
Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.
men doors knocking
Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God
art caring thinking
The modern world has far too little understanding of the art of keeping young. Its notion of progress has been to pile one thing on top of another, without caring if each thing was crushed in turn. People forgot that the human soul can enjoy a thing most when there is time to think about it and be thankful for it. And by crowding things together they lost the sense of surprise; and surprise is the secret of joy.
christian blow doors
We are Christians and Catholics not because we worship a key, but because we have passed a door; and felt the wind that is the trumpet of liberty blow over the land of the living.
men ordinary knows
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
catholic reason explaining
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.
reality choices dignity
Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
world arena hopeless
ONCE remove the old arena of theological quarrels, and you will throw open the whole world to the most horrible, the most hopeless, the most endless, the most truly interminable quarrels; the untheological quarrels.
order giving looks
Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his observation and merely say ‘Give me death’-the alternative being manifestly impossible under modern conditions.