K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
teaching personality soul
As to the doubt of the soul I discover it to be false: a mood not a conclusion. My conclusion is the Faith. Corporate, organized, a personality, teaching. A thing, not a theory. It.
christian moving church
We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.
christian christian-inspirational would-be
How much larger your life would be if you were smaller in it...
racism people conviction
The people who are most bigoted are those who have no conviction at all.
retirement people merit
Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
faces looks paper
Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.
religious mean self
Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as Self-Examination. The consequence is that the modern State has educated its citizens in a series of ephemeral fads.
half way bed
Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.
vegetables connections gutters
A modern vegetarian is also a teetotaler, yet there is no obvious connection between consuming vegetables and not consuming fermented vegetables. A drunkard, when lifted laboriously out of the gutter, might well be heard huskily to plead that he had fallen there through excessive devotion to a vegetable diet.
grateful waiting feelings
Around every corner is another gift waiting to surprise us, and it will surprise us if we can achieve control over our natural tendencies to make comparisons [to things that are better rather than things that are worse], to take things for granted [rather than imagining how much worse things would be if they weren't there and so feeling grateful], and to feel entitled!
horse devil four
The Devil's walking parody; On all four-footed things.
blessed expectations
Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.
telescopes world microscopes
The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger.
loneliness allies isolation
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.