The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap... When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
Gilbert K. ChestertonUnless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.
Gilbert K. ChestertonA building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask why we have no typical architecture of the modern world, like impressionism in painting. Surely it is obviously because we have not enough dogmas; we cannot bear to see anything in the sky that is solid and enduring, anything in the sky that does not change like the clouds of the sky.
Gilbert K. Chesterton