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.
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.
men religion thousand
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
asks desires head heavens logician poet seeks
The poet only desires exaltation and expansion. 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.
boat owe stormy terrible
We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
height style
He could not think up to the height of his own towering style.
cute-love loved man short sweet-love
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
anyone earth life mystery point riddle
We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it.
discovered exuberant nonsense round
Nonsense is a kind of exuberant capering round a discovered truth.