And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?...You mean to say, that you're a daughter of Eve?...Y-yes, but, you are in fact... human?

We know we are sinners, it does not follow that we are saved.

The sight of the huge world put mad ideas into me, as if I could wander away, wander forever, see strange and beautiful things, one after the other...

A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows.

Because God created the Natural - invented it out of His love and artistry - it demands our reverence.

On many questions and specially in view of the marriage bed, the Puritans were the indulgent party, . . . they were much more Chestertonian than their adversaries. The idea that a Puritan was a repressed and repressive person would have astonished Sir Thomas More and Luther about equally.

The only people who hate escapism are jailers.