There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
As to the doubt of the soul I discover it to be false: a mood not a conclusion. My conclusion is the Faith. Corporate, organized, a personality, teaching. A thing, not a theory. It.
The moment sex ceases to be a servant it becomes a tyrant.
The Christian optimism is based on the fact that we do not fit in to the world.
The suburb of Saffron Park lay on the sunset side of London, as red and ragged as a cloud of sunset. It was built of a bright brick throughout; its sky-line was fantastic, and even its ground plan was...
The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past; and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that he is also a reactionary.
In dealing with the arrogant asserter of doubt, it is not the right method to tell him to stop doubting. It is rather the right method to tell him to go on doubting , to doubt a little more, to doubt...
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it. You cannot fight without something to fight for. To love a thing without wishing to fight for it is not love at all; it is lust. It may be an a...
The devil takes us to the top of an exceeding high mountain and makes us dizzy; but God lets us look at the mountain.
The primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.
She was not in the least afraid of loneliness, because she was not afraid of devils. I think they were afraid of her.
Every trace of the passionate plumage of the cloudy sunset had been swept away, and a naked moon stood in a naked sky. The moon was so strong and full, that (by a paradox often to be noticed) it seeme...
What we need is not the cold acceptance of the world as a compromise,but some way in which we can heartily hate and heartily love it. We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce...
It is not true that we have never been broken. We have been broken upon the wheel. It is not true that we have never descended from these thrones. We have descended into hell. We were complaining of u...
You attacked reason, said Father Brown. It’s bad theology.
Man is more himself, more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing and grief superficial.
Take away the supernatural, and what remains is the unnatural.
People like frequent laughter, answered Father Brown, but I don't think they like a permanent smile. Cheerfulness without humour is a very trying thing.
Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.
It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos; for man was always small compared to the nearest tree.
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