Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Adoration of the Magi, 1445, Fra Angelico

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“We men and women are all in the same boat, upon a stormy sea. We owe to each other a terrible and tragic loyalty.” ― G.K. Chesterton, The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 28: The Illustrated London News, 1908-1910

By G. K. Chesterton After one moment when I bowed my head And the whole world turned over and came upright, And I came out where the old road shone white. I walked the ways and heard what all men said, Forests of tongues, like autumn leaves unshed, Being not unlovable but strange and light; Old riddles and new creeds, not in despite But softly, as men smile about the dead The sages have a hundred maps to give That trace their crawling cosmos like a tree, They rattle reason out through many a sieve That stores the sand and lets the gold go free: And all these things are less than dust to me Because my name is Lazarus and I live.

— Gilbert Keith Chesterton

— Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy

GRYFFINDOR: “An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.” –G.K. Chesterton (All Things Considered)

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