Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world once very nearly died of broadmindedness and the brotherhood of all religions.
G.K. ChestertonNever invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
G.K. ChestertonAnd it did certainly appear that the prophets had put the people (engaged in the old game of Cheat the Prophet) in a quite unprecedented difficulty. It seemed really hard to do anything without fulfilling some of their prophecies.
But there was, nevertheless, in the eyes of labourers in the streets, of peasants in the fields, of sailors and children, and especially women, a strange look that kept the wise men in a perfect fever of doubt. They could not fathom the motionless mirth in their eyes. They still had something up their sleeve; they were still playing the game of Cheat the Prophet.
Then the wise men grew like wild things, and swayed hither and thither, crying, "What can it be? What can it be? What will London be like a century hence? Is there anything we have not thought of? Houses upside down--more hygienic, perhaps? Men walking on hands--make feet flexible, don't you know? Moon ... motor-cars ... no heads...." And so they swayed and wondered until they died and were buried nicely.
Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.
G.K. ChestertonTag: inspirational-humor
There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
G.K. ChestertonTag: listening
The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
G.K. ChestertonLying in bed would be an altogether supreme experience if one only had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
G.K. ChestertonThere are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
G.K. ChestertonTag: happiness serenity satisfaction
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.
G.K. ChestertonThe injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
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