A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.
G.K. ChestertonTags: morality ethics christianity modernity
The worst moment for an atheist is when he is really thankful and has no one to thank.
G.K. ChestertonTags: christianity religion athiesm
The romantic seeks only to get his head into the heavens. The rationalist seeks to get the heavens into his head – and it is his head that splits.
G.K. ChestertonBut the truth is that there is no more conscious inconsistency between the humility of a Christian and the rapacity of a Christian than there is between the humility of a lover and the rapacity of a lover. The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy. There never was a man in love who did not declare that, if he strained every nerve to breaking, he was going to have his desire. And there never was a man in love who did not declare also that he ought not to have it.
G.K. ChestertonTags: love christianity humility christian desire catholicism catholic lovers unworthy chesterton
A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.
G.K. ChestertonTags: dragons adventures chesterton hippogriffs
There was something of relative freedom in that feudal gesture of the vow; for no man asks vows from slaves anymore than from spades.
G.K. ChestertonTags: freedom history vows francis-of-assisi
I beseech you, little brothers, that you be as wise as brother Daisy and brother dandelion; for never do they lie awake thinking of tomorrow, yet they have gold crowns like kings and emperors or like Charlemagne in all his glory.
G.K. ChestertonTags: peace joy simplicity
Pride is the downward drag of all things into an easy solemnity. One "settles down" into a sort of selfish seriousness; but one has to rise to a gay self-forgetfulness... Seriousness is not a virtue. It would be a heresy, but a much more sensible heresy, to say that seriousness is a vice. It is really a natural trend or lapse into taking one's self gravely, because it is the easiest thing to do... For solemnity flows out of men naturally; but laughter is a leap. It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.
G.K. ChestertonThe objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god.
G.K. ChestertonTags: humility local-government small-is-beautiful
The modern mind is hard to please; and it generally calls the way of Godfrey ferocious and the way of Francis fanatical. That is, it calls any moral method unpractical, when it has just called any practical method immoral.
G.K. ChestertonTags: crusades francis-of-assisi secular-dogma
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