We must be clear about what we want to paint. This adds a further principle to our previous list of principles. We have said we must be fond of this world, even in order to change it.
Gilbert K. ChestertonOne must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWith every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThis is, first and last, the real value of Christmas; in so far as the mythology remains at all it is a kind of happy mythology. Personally, of course, I believe in Santa Claus; but it is the season of forgiveness, and I will forgive others for not doing so.
Gilbert K. ChestertonLiberty is the very last idea that seems to occur to anybody, in considering any political or social proposal. It is only necessary for anybody for any reason to allege any evidence of any evil in any human practice, for people instantly to suggest that the practice should be suppressed by the police.
Gilbert K. Chesterton