K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
night garden heaven
On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but of the dawn.
creativity construction creative-thought
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
modern accepting authority
Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
hope mean unbelievable-things
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
long god-love one-love
The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
stories fool rebel
I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.
inspirational cities parks
I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.
divine-revelation revelations theologian
A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.
life-and-love great-person really-great
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
nature adversity mountain-peaks
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
school men doe
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
men trying looks
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
men religion thousand
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
god atheist christian-inspirational
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.