I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller
Gilbert K. ChestertonA sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThat is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.
Gilbert K. ChestertonHope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWe do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of the fanatic who wrecks this world out of hatred of the other? He sacrifices the very existence of humanity to the non-existence of God. He offers his victims not to the altar, but merely to assert the idleness of the altar and the emptiness of the throne. He is ready to ruin even that primary ethic by which all things live, for his strange and eternal vengeance upon some one who never lived at all.
Gilbert K. Chesterton