Inside I am really bursting with boyish merriment; but I acted the paralytic Professor so well, that now I can't leave off.
G.K. ChestertonTags: enthusiasm reserve
I mean that we here are on the wrong side of the tapestry,' answered Father Brown. 'The things that happen here do not seem to mean anything; they mean something somewhere else. Somewhere else retribution will come on the real offender. Here it often seems to fall on the wrong person.
G.K. ChestertonHappy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
G.K. ChestertonTags: brokenness
Los cuentos de hadas superan la realidad no porque nos digan que los dragones existen, sino porque nos dicen que pueden ser vencidos.
G.K. ChestertonIf the moderns really want a simple religion of love, they must look for it in the Athanasian Creed. The truth is that the trumpet of true Christianity, the challenge of the charities and simplicities of Bethlehem or Christmas Day never rang out more arrestingly and unmistakably than in the defiance of Athanasius to the cold compromise of the Arians. It was emphatically he who really was fighting for a God of Love against a God of colourless and remote cosmic control; the God of the stoics and the agnostics. It was emphatically he who was fighting for the Holy Child against the grey deity of the Pharisees and the Sadducees. He was fighting for that very balance of beautiful interdependence and intimacy, in the very Trinity of the Divine Nature, that draws our hearts to the Trinity of the Holy Family. His dogma, if the phrase be not misunderstood, turns even God into a Holy Family.
G.K. ChestertonTags: love christianity god pagans the-trinity heretics god-is-love athanasius
I might point out that the rich do not so much buy honesty as curtains to cover dishonesty.
G.K. ChestertonWhenever he gives advice it is always something as startling as an epigram, and yet as practical as the Bank of England.
G.K. ChestertonI could forgive you even your cruelty if it were not for your calm.
G.K. ChestertonTags: cold-hearted
For with any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. There comes a certain point in such conditions when only three things are possible: first a perpetuation of Satanic pride, secondly tears, and third laughter.
G.K. ChestertonThe only crime of the Government is that it governs. The unpardonable sin of the supreme power is that it is supreme. I do not curse you for being cruel. I do not curse you (though I might) for being kind. I curse you for being safe!
G.K. ChestertonTags: activism risk force coercion
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