Some great quotes for you to ponder by a brilliant author, thinker, philosopher and apologist, G.K Chesterton.
"And when they had made a Holy Day for God, did they find they made a holiday for men" - Orthodoxy
"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found difficult and left untried" - What's Wrong With the World
"It (courage) means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die" - The Paradoxes of Christianity
"Whenever we feel there is something odd in Christian theology , we shall generally find there is something odd in the truth" - The Paradoxes of Christianity
"A man is not really convinced of a philosophic theory when he finds something that proves it. He is only really convinced when he finds that everything proves it" - The Paradoxes of Christianity
"Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief is superficial" - Orthodoxy, Authority and the Adventurer
"There are two main moral necessities for the work of a great man: the first is that he should believe in the truth of his message; the second is that he should believe in the acceptability of his message" - Twelve Types
"For if there is a wall between you and the world, it makes little difference whether you describe yourself as being locked in or locked out", on freedom within Christianity there is still separation - Paradoxes of Christianity
On passing trends and fashions, "It is always easy to let the age have its head; the difficult thing is to keep ones own" - The Paradoxes of Christianity
"Christianity is a superhuman paradox whereby two opposite passions may blaze beside each other" - Orthodoxy, The Authority and the Adventurer
