K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
miracle childhood world
What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.
men pistols use
I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.
book written
Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.
inspirational strong practice
of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.
sick world being-sick
The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.
men hair long
That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.
thinking devil unbearable
If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.
moving christian-inspirational mind
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
real healing evil
...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not.
way revolution christianity
Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.
stars believe men
I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
atheist religion atheism
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
sacrifice hatred humanity
We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of the fanatic who wrecks this world out of hatred of the other? He sacrifices the very existence of humanity to the non-existence of God. He offers his victims not to the altar, but merely to assert the idleness of the altar and the emptiness of the throne. He is ready to ruin even that primary ethic by which all things live, for his strange and eternal vengeance upon some one who never lived at all.
men devil satan
I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.