Showing posts with label Chesterton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chesterton. Show all posts

Friday, July 24, 2009

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, May 15, 2009

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)

(tweet!)

Friday, April 03, 2009

Friday's QOTD


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

--G.K. Chesterton (maybe)

Friday, February 29, 2008

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, February 22, 2008

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, February 15, 2008

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, February 01, 2008

Friday's Chesterton QOTD



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

--G.K. Chesterton

Friday, January 25, 2008

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, November 16, 2007

Friday, November 09, 2007

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, November 02, 2007

Friday's Chesterton QOTD


It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

--G.K. Chesterton

Source here.

Friday, October 26, 2007

Friday's Chesterton QOTD


You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

--G.K. Chesterton

(Picture source. Quotation source.)

Friday, October 19, 2007

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, October 12, 2007

Friday, October 05, 2007

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.)

Friday, September 14, 2007

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.

Monday, January 22, 2007

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)