When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
– GK Chesterton –
Take Things for Granted or with Gratitude – GK Chesterton
Chesterton on Grace and Prayer
You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
– GK Chesterton –
An Inconvenience Reconsidered – GK Chesterton
An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
– GK Chesterton –
from On Running After One’s Hat
Thanksgiving is the Highest Form of Thought – GK Chesterton
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
– GK Chesterton –
Difficult and Left Untried – GK Chesterton
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
– GK Chesterton –
Love, Forgive, Faith, and Hope – GK Chesterton
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
– GK Chesterton –
The Christian Ideal – GK Chesterton
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
– GK Chesterton –