G.k. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

Quotes

• “According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it ...”
• “...even nursery tales only echo an almost pre-natal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were gol...”
• “They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not los...”
• “He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, ...”
• “Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Traditi...”
• “Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.”