-G. K. Chesterton
“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.”
-G. K. Chesterton
“The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.”
-G. K. Chesterton
-G. K. Chesterton
“The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.”
-G. K. Chesterton
“The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.”
-G. K. Chesterton, Flying Inn (1914)
-G. K. Chesterton, Flying Inn (1914)
“There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.”
-G. K. Chesterton, Heretics (1905)
“The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.”
-G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.”
-G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy