I would add (possibly repeat) to Thabiti Anyabwile’s great list of Chesterton quotes: “A paradox is a truth standing on its head to get our attention.” “Tolerance is the virtue of people who don’t believe anything.” “A man can no…
Tolerance defined by Chesterton
G.K. Chesterton: Tolerance is the virtue of people who don’t believe anything.* Quoted in The American Hour, by Os Guinness, New York: The Free Press, A Division of macmillan, Inc, 1993, page 174).
D.A. Carson on the intolerance of tolerance
G.K. Chesterton famously said that, “Tolerance is the virtue of people who don’t believe anything.” Here Carson explains how the connotation of “tolerance” has changed over time. HT: Z
Chesterton on private religion
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936), “Introduction to the Book of Job”: The modern habit of saying “Every man has a different philosophy; this is my philosophy and it suits me”—the habit of saying this is mere weak-mindedness. A cosmic philosophy is…
“Everything has a story tied to its tail”
The imminently quotable G.K. Chesterton: One can find no meanings in a jungle of skepticism; but the man will find more and more meanings who walks through a forest of doctrine and design. Here everything has a story tied to…
“It is idle to talk always of the alternative of faith and reason . . .”
G.K. Chesteron: It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. Quoted in Kelly Clark, Return to Reason, page 123.
Chesterton on Christianity’s Giant Secret
Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian. Orthodoxy, page 170.
To have fallen into any one of the fads from Gnosticism to Christian Science would indeed have been obvious and tame . . .
. . . But to avoid them all has been one whirling adventure; and in my vision the heavenly chariot flies thundering through the ages, the dull heresies sprawling and prostrate, the will truth reeling but erect. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, page…
The Right Kind of Modesty and the Wrong Sort (per Chesterton)
A few days ago I was thinking of how I would make initial introduction to myself in England where I would be preaching. In explaining my convictions to a new audience, it seemed appropriate to quote two quotable Brits. First,…