The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
– GK Chesterton –
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 –
March 15, 2015
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live, taking the form of a readiness to die.
– GK Chesterton –
February 12, 2015
Love means loving the unlovable—or it is no virtue at all.
– GK Chesterton –
October 14, 2013
When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
– GK Chesterton –
March 26, 2013
When asked what’s wrong with the world, G.K. Chesterton responded, “I am”.
March 6, 2013
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
– GK Chesterton –
January 30, 2013
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 –