Quotes Tagged With :chesterton

Those countries in Europe which are still influenced by priests, are exactly the countries where there....

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us....

A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because....

I felt in my bones; first, that this world does not explain itself. It may be a miracle with a supernatural....

Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly. This has always been the instinct of Christendom,....

the things common to all men are more important than the things peculiar to any men. Ordinary things....

But the truth is that there is no more conscious inconsistency between the humility of a Christian and....

Somewhere Chesterton writes--I think it is Chesterton--that you cannot reason a man from a position that....

What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition....