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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d1f530f | Somehow one can never manage to be an atheist. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 7a03f96 | G. K. Chesterton once said that to be thankful is the highest form of thought and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. Thanklessness, then,must be the lowest form of thought, and ingratitude is discontentment, bankrupted of wonder. | Ravi Zacharias | ||
| 47f9ae8 | The little sins are sometimes harder to confess than the big ones--but that's why it's so important to confess them. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 72d71a1 | I need the wisdom, reasoning, and apologetics of C. S. Lewis, though some of his theological beliefs are different from mine. I need the preaching and charisma of Charles Spurgeon, though his view of baptism is different from mine. I need the resurrection vision of N. T. Wright and the theology of Jonathan Edwards, though their views on church government are different from mine. I need the passion and prophetic courage of Martin Luther King.. | Scott Sauls | ||
| 87b6ba8 | She(Joan of Arc) put her dreams and her sentiment into her aims, where they ought to be; she put her practicality into her practice. In modern Imperial wars, the case is reversed. Our dreams, our aims are always, we insist, quite practical. It is our practice that is dreamy. | dream joan-of-arc practical sentiment | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 33a1f19 | People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. It is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists. It is no answer to say, with a distant optimism, that the scheme is only in the air. A blow from a hatchet can only be parried while it is in the air. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| d778b39 | Fantasy--and all fiction is fantasy of one kind or another--is a mirror. A distorting mirror, to be sure, and a concealing mirror, set at forty-five degrees to reality, but it's a mirror nonetheless, which we can use to tell ourselves things we might not otherwise see. (Fairy tales, as G. K Chesterton once said, are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated.) | Neil Gaiman | ||
| e75cc24 | It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odd--uncanny and highly improbable. G. K. Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at a gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don't. | Alan W. Watts | ||
| dd56757 | All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 803c5f1 | Something lay in the shadow at the foot of the ridge, as stiff as the stick of the fallen rocket; and the man who knew too much knew what is worth knowing. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 6c69352 | I know the Unknown God," said the little priest, with an unconscious grandeur of certitude that stood up like a granite tower. "I know his name; it is Satan. The true God was made flesh and dwelt among us. And I say to you, wherever you find men ruled merely by mystery, it is the mystery of iniquity. If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think so.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| c891796 | He discovered the fact that all romantics know--that adventures happen on dull days, and not on sunny ones. When the chord of monotony is stretched most tight, then it breaks with a sound like song. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 0b382c7 | Every true artist does feel, consciously or unconsciously, that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| e90153f | It is quaint that people talk about separating dogma from education. Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. | education | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 3729ce4 | In so far as I am Man I am the chief of creatures. In so far as I am a man I am the chief of sinners. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 320139b | The globe-trotter lives in a smaller world than the peasent. He is always breathing an air of locality. London is a place to be compared to Chicage; Chicago is a place, to be compared to Timbuctoo. But Timbuctoo is not a place, sonce there, at least, live men who regard it as the universe, and breathe, not an air of locality, but the winds of the world. The man in the saloon steamer has seen all the races of men; and is thinking of the thin.. | traveling | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 42e766a | I have never been to St. John's Wood. I dare not. I should be afraid of the innumerable night of fir trees, afraid to come upon a blood red cup and the beating of the wings of the Eagle. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 965b30c | Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister. We can be proud of her beauty, since we have the same father; but she has no authority over us; we have to admire, but not to imitate. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| e88878a | Only a man who knows nothing of motors talks of motoring without petrol; only a man who knows nothing of reason talks of reasoning without strong, undisputed first principles. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 7df9266 | And the greatest of the poets, when he defined the poet, did not say that he gave us the universe or the absolute or the infinite; but, in his own larger language, a local habitation and a name. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| adb894e | You've got to understand one of the tricks of the modern mind, a tendency that most people obey without noticing it. In the village or suburb outside there's an inn with the sign of St. George and the Dragon. Now suppose I went about telling everybody that this was only a corruption of King George and the Dragoon. Scores of people would believe it, without any inquiry, from a vague feeling that it's probable because it's prosaic. It turns s.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 4195c06 | The place was not only pleasant, but perfect, if once he could regard it not as a deception but rather as a dream. Even if the people were not 'artists,' the whole was nevertheless artistic. That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face--that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 3f532c5 | I know too much," he said. "That's what's the matter with me. That's what's the matter with all of us, and the whole show; we know too much. Too much about one another; too much about ourselves." | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| dc34df0 | The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 6972ede | There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical. And he never goes on sitting there after sunset, with the whole place getting dark. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 09348aa | We matter to God -- God only knows why. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 1ad26be | Through all this modern muddle there runs the curious principle of sacrificing the ancient uses of things because they do not fit in with the modern abuses. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 2ca1bad | In short, I had always believed that the world involved magic: now I thought that perhaps it involved a magician. And this pointed a profound emotion always present and sub-conscious; that this world of ours has some purpose; and if there is a purpose, there is a person. I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller. | Kevin Belmonte | ||
| 892dc53 | Eisenhower has been much criticized for his failure publicly to endorse the Court's decision. But he felt that doing so would set an undesirable precedent. If a president endorsed decisions he agreed with, might he feel compelled to oppose decisions he did not agree with? And what would that do to the rule of law? "The Supreme Court has spoken and I am sworn to uphold ... the constitutional processes.... I will obey."3" | William J. Bennett | ||
| 600a6c7 | Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order, | William J. Bennett | ||
| 7edcc87 | and line of cases. Justice Byron R. "Whizzer" White, a JFK appointee, dissented, calling Doe an act of "raw judicial power," as it took these decisions from the states and enshrined their determination in the Supreme Court's reasoning." | William J. Bennett | ||
| 3459e19 | My colleague and I are journalists. ... Not of the muckraking variety, I hasten to assure you! Corruption is a necessary and time-honored concomitant of any functioning government, which we support wholeheartedly. | government-corruption humor | Michael Swanwick | |
| 733ce0a | A hippogriff flew past, trailing laughter. It came so close to Will that he could smell its scent, a pungent mixture of horse sweat and milky pin-feathers, and feel the wind from its wings. Its rider's hair streamed out behind her like a red banner. Will stared up at her, awestruck. The young woman in the saddle was all grace and athleticism. She wore green slacks with matching soft leather boots and, above a golden swatch of abdomen, a hal.. | Michael Swanwick | ||
| 63faca1 | This book is dedicated to all good teachers everywhere, most particularly those of the William Levering School and Central High School in Philadelphia, to whom more is owed than can ever be repaid. | philadelphia teachers | Michael Swanwick | |
| 35c3467 | Imagination was all very well in the daylight, but it was an uncomfortable thing late at night. | Lauren Willig | ||
| 7d1ebd5 | When they arrived at Parva Magna, everyone agreed that it was quite a good thing that the newly married couple had managed to find shelter in the storm, although there was some confusion as to why it had taken them a full three days to make their way fifteen miles. | way-with-words | Lauren Willig | |
| 9f257e1 | This was what the poets couldn't put in their poetry, she thought dumbly, the rush of desire so fierce and pure it made one shake, all on the force of a word. | poetry | Lauren Willig | |
| 398c8cc | Crossing my arms over my chest, I said, a little too heartily, "So this is the library." There certainly couldn't be any doubt on that score; never had a room so resembled popular preconception. The walls were paneled in rich, dark wood, although the finish had worn off the edges in spots, where books had scraped against the wood in passing one too many times. A whimsical iron staircase curved to the balcony, the steps narrowing into pie-sh.. | Lauren Willig | ||
| d85a5dc | For I shall bring you crimson leaves And rippling wheat in golden sheaves; A cache of berries, red and sweet, And dappled deer on silent feet." - Emma Delagardie and Augustus Whittlesby, Americanus: A Masque in Three Parts" | Lauren Willig | ||
| 198906d | All this rapture," managed Letty, wriggling out of her mother's grasp, "is decidedly premature." | Lauren Willig | ||
| e1fd6e8 | There's nothing like competing for your boyfriend's attention with an emotionally needy sibling to make you feel like the worst sort of evil psycho-bitch. | Lauren Willig | ||
| 7b5b71e | Such kindness wasn't a gift but a goad, scraping against one's skin like a yoke of thorns. She would have preferred him stiff, defensive, even offensive. | kindness love men pride | Lauren Willig | |
| 118d878 | He admired her for throwing off her aristocratic shackles -- his terms, that -- and making her own way in the world. He didn't realize that the truth was so much more complex, so much less impressive. She had less thrown than been thrown. | Lauren Willig | ||
| 831320e | It hurt to kill a dream, like tearing petals off a rose in full bloom. | hurting-others killing-dreams rose | Lauren Willig |