“According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
“There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.”
― The Everlasting Man
― The Everlasting Man
“Lying in bed would be an altogether supreme experience if one only had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.”
― Tremendous Trifles
― Tremendous Trifles
“We men and women are all in the same boat, upon a stormy sea. We owe to each other a terrible and tragic loyalty.”
― The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 28: The Illustrated London News, 1908-1910
― The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 28: The Illustrated London News, 1908-1910
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