K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
anyone blasphemy doubts itself religion survive
Blasphemy itself could not survive religion; if anyone doubts that, let him try to blaspheme Odin.
christian religion morality
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
religion tests childlike-faith
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
men religion thousand
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
practice religion may
I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
moon religion sun
One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.
mad people religion
People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad.
atheist religion atheism
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
cease happens nowadays people retirement work worst
The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
apple goes heaven road wood
The road from heaven to Hereford / Where the apple wood of Hereford / Goes all the way to Wales.
alas england graves rule
And they that rule in England, / In stately conclave met, / Alas, alas for England / They have no graves as yet.
cute-love loved man short sweet-love
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
discovered exuberant nonsense round
Nonsense is a kind of exuberant capering round a discovered truth.
country desperate drunk except patriot saying
My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.