“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
“We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.”
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“Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.”
― The Gospel of Luke - Enlarged Print Edition
― The Gospel of Luke - Enlarged Print Edition
“In friendship...we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years' difference in the dates of our births, a few more miles between certain houses, the choice of one university instead of another...the accident of a topic being raised or not raised at a first meeting--any of these chances might have kept us apart. But, for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking no chances. A secret master of ceremonies has been at work. Christ, who said to the disciples, "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you," can truly say to every group of Christian friends, "Ye have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another." The friendship is not a reward for our discriminating and good taste in finding one another out. It is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
― The Everlasting Man
― The Everlasting Man
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