Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.
But again I seem to hear, like a kind of echo, an answer from beyond the world. 'You will have real obligations, and therefore real adventures when you get to my Utopia. But the hardest obligation and...
As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reckon on the unforeseen.
Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal; the shock of beauty is when the irresistible force hits the immovable post.
And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.
And that is just the note; that’s the unmistakable style. People who complain are just jolly, human Christian nuisances; I don’t mind them. But people who complain that they never complain are the dev...
And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages? Might as well talk about prudent suicides.
And as I close this chaotic volume I open again the strange small book from which all Christianity came; and I am again haunted by a kind of confirmation. The tremendous figure which fills the Gospels...
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller
Sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late
If a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.
[T]he horrible thing about all legal officials, even the best, about all judges, magistrates, barristers, detectives, and policeman, is not that they are wicked (some of them are good), not that they...
You have not wasted your time; you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy.
You can free things from alien or accidental laws, but not from the laws of their own nature. You may, if you like, free a tiger from his bars; but do not free him from his stripes. Do not free a came...
Yet these new women would always pay to a man the extravagant compliment which no ordinary woman ever pays to him, that of listening while he is talking.
White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so...
What is the modern mind? asked Grant.Oh, it's enlightened, you know, and progressive --and faces the facts of life seriously. At this moment another roar of laughter came from within.
What a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad.
We will have have the dead at our councils. The ancient Greeks voted by stones; these shall vote by tombstones. It is all quite regular and official, for most tombstones, like most ballot papers, are...