K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
goodness symbols
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God
two luxury different
Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
defeated disadvantages conqueror
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.
issues principles moral
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
elephants plot odd
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
cosmos would-be hammers
How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.
pride thunder
Take not thy thunder from us, but take away our pride.
church states church-and-state
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church
imagination mind forget
All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.
defeat defeated crosses
The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.
kings equality men
For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.
moral modern strengthening
If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.
belief torture martyr
The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.
passion men postman
Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men.