Friday's Chesterton QOTD

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

--G.K. Chesterton

p.s. I chose this in honor of the 10th wedding anniversary of me and sic, today. Thankfully, we rule a peaceable kingdom here...no mortal injuries so far!

See how cute we were 10 years ago?

Happy anniversary, sweetie.

--I.C.

Friday's QOTD

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

--G.K. Chesterton

(feels very appropo today)

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Friday's QOTD

"Every man who knocks on the door of a brothel is looking for God."

--G.K. Chesterton (maybe)

Friday's QOTD

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

--G.K. Chesterton

Friday's Chesterton QOTD

We have remarked that one reason offered for being a progressive is that things naturally tend to grow better. But the only real reason for being a progressive is that things naturally tend to grow worse. The corruption in things is not only the best argument for being progressive; it is also the only argument against being conservative. The conservative theory would really be quite sweeping and unanswerable if it were not for this one fact. But all conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. If you leave a white post alone it will soon be a black post. If you particularly want it to be white you must be always painting it again; that is, you must be always having a revolution. Briefly, if you want the old white post you must have a new white post.

--G.K. Chesterton

(quotation found here, picture here)

Friday's Chesterton QOTD

When such a critic says, for instance, that faith kept the world in darkness until doubt led to enlightenment, he is himself taking things on faith, things that he has never been sufficiently enlightened to doubt. That exceedingly crude simplification of human history is what he has been taught, and he believes it because he has been taught. I do not blame him for that; I merely remark that he is an unconscious example of everything that he reviles.

--G.K. Chesterton

(found here)

Friday's Chesterton QOTD

It is of the new things that men tire - of fashions and proposals and improvements and change. It is the old things that startle and intoxicate. It is the old things that are young.

--G.K. Chesterton

(found here)

Friday's Chesterton QOTD

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

--G.K. Chesterton

Found here.

Friday's Chesterton QOTD

"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die."

--Chesterton

Found here.

Friday's Chesterton QOTD

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

--G.K. Chesterton

Quote source, picture source.

Friday's Chesterton QOTD

The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.

--G.K. Chesterton

Quotation source.

Friday's Chesterton QOTD

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

--G.K. Chesterton

Source here.

Friday's Chesterton QOTD

You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

--G.K. Chesterton

(Picture source. Quotation source.)

Friday's Chesterton QOTD

I believe in getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean.

--G.K. Chesterton



Quote here. Picture here.

Friday's Chesterton QOTD

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

--G.K. Chesterton




Quote found here.

Friday's Chesterton QOTD

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.--
G. K. Chesterton

(Quotation found here.)
(Apocalyptically weird PG-13 art at Bert's Bad Art.)

Chesterton QOTD #3

"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried." - Chapter 5, What's Wrong With The World, 1910

Found among many here.

Chesterton QOTD

(QOTD = Quote of the Day)

Before there was Colbert, there was ... G. K. Chesterton. Drum roll please...

"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people." - ILN, 7/16/10

Chesterton QOTD #2

In honor of the Week for Christian Unity:

"Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral." (Illustrated London News, December 28, 1929)