“John, you deserve an exclusive vacation”
Subject line on email from Marriott Vacation Club June 11, 2024 [making no effort to establish that I in fact deserved such a thing]
“one fact which sticks out like a spike as huge as the Matterhorn is the fact that the Christianity which created Christendom did definitely declare that its religious founder, unlike other religious founders, had risen from the dead…. Nobody ever said that Confucius rose from the dead; and nobody would have been more legitimately annoyed at the notion than Confucius.”
G.K. Chesterton “Resurrection” in G.K.’s Weekly April 9, 1936 reprinted in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #4 (March/April 2025) [said after ridiculing the idea that only those without religion can compare the merits of all religions, which he notes wouldn’t work well in music or science]
“Real primary creation (such as the sun or the birth of a child) calls forth not criticism, not appreciation, but a kind of incoherent gratitude. This is why most hymns about God are bad.”
G.K. Chesterton in “The Great Dickens Characters” in Charles Dickens, quoted by Dale Ahlquist in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #4 (March/April 2025) [he says Chesterton’s own “O God of Earth and Altar” (GKC only wrote the words) is good].
“Caution is the most valuable asset in fishing, especially if you are the fish.”
“Unknown” quoted in “Other Suspects – II Quotes not by GKC” in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #3 (Jan./Feb. 2025)
“Experience is what you get when you are looking for something else.”
“Pathfinder” quoted in “Other Suspects – II Quotes not by GKC” in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #3 (Jan./Feb. 2025)
“Christianity… has marked the limits of it [“this romantic riddle” that to gain your life you must lose it, for instance the soldier who can only fight his way out of a tight spot by taking terrible risks as if they were casual] in the awful graves of the suicide and the hero, showing the distance between him who dies for the sake of living and him who dies for the sake of dying.”
Peter Floriani in “The Golden Key Chain GKC on Scripture Conducted by Peter Floriani” in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #4 (March/April 2025)
“Publishers do not deny that they are publishers unless there are poets lurking about.”
G.K. Chesterton quoted without further attribution in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #3 (Jan./Feb. 2025)
“It is very perilous indeed that millions of people should have the law laid down for them by journalists who write as if they knew everything, and seem to know nothing about anything.”
G.K. Chesterton in G.K.’s Weekly April 14, 1935, quoted in “Chesterton for Today” in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #3 (Jan./Feb. 2025)