The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Chur…

Gilbert K. Chesterton
824 citations
The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare tomorrow at breakfast. He is always expecting to see some truth that he has never seen before. ✨ Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton, p.117, Simon and Schuster
Life Truth
27

More Author Quotes

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. ✨ The New York Times, November 21, 1930.
The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the pocket-knife, for instance, the type of all human tools, the infant of the s … ▶
The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. . … ▶
Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes