If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkeness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden in it somewhere. But when Bernard Shaw says that Christmas Day is only a conspiracy kept up by Poulterers and wine merchants from strictly business motives, then he says something […]
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it. The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it has a God who knew his way out of the grave… At least five times,… with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist sceptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Faith has to all appearance gone to the dogs. In each of these five […]
That Jones shall worship the “god within him” turns out ultimately to mean that Jones shall worship Jones. Let Jones worship the sun or moon – anything rather than the Inner Light; let Jones worship cats or crocodiles, if he can find any in his street, but not the god within. Christianity came into the […]
But I did not dislike them because they had erroneous doctrines, when I myself had no doctrines; or because they had no claim to be Christians, when in fact they would have claimed Christianity… much more confidently than I could myself. I disliked them because they had shiny pebbly eyes and patient smiles. Their patience […]
Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.
The problem with capitalism is not that there are too many capitalists, but rather, too few.
The successful business man sometimes makes his money by ability and experience; but he generally makes it by mistake.
A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.
