Chris

“A breeze blew so clean and sweet, that one could not think that it blew from the sky; it blew rather through some hole in the sky.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

“Syme felt moved to spring up and leap over the balcony. When the President's eyes were on him he felt as if he were made of glass. He had hardly the shred of a doubt that in some silent and extraordinary way Sunday had found out that he was a spy. He looked over the edge of the balcony, and saw a policeman, standing abstractedly just beneath, staring at the bright railings and the sunlit trees.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

“the most important thing we are doing in this life is preparing for the life that is going to come.”
― John Ortberg, Soul Keeping: Caring For the Most Important Part of You

“Listen to me," cried Syme with extraordinary emphasis. "Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front -”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare