“When the art of controversy comes back, it will not come from the world of sceptics and iconoclasts. It will come rather from the world of believers and of dogmatists. It will not be the work of men who merely ask questions, but of men who believe that they have found answers. It will come out of the clash of real convictions, which are positive and not negative; not from those who say: ‘What is truth,’ but from those who can still say: ‘This is truth’; not from Pilate but from Paul.”

G.K. Chesterton in New Witness Sept. 8, 1922, quoted in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 # 4 (March-April 2023)

“All things begin in the mind.”

G.K. Chesterton in “The Story of the Statues,” in The Resurrection of Rome, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 11 #4 (Jan.-Feb. 2008)

“To look to the future is merely to forge a testimonial from the babe unborn.”

G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News Nov. 3, 1917, quoted in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 # 2 (Nov.-Dec. 2022)

“Concentration is a narrowing down of the mind – but we are concerned with the total process of living, and to concentrate exclusively on any particular aspect of life, belittles life. A concentrated mind is not an attentive mind, but a mind that is in the state of awareness can concentrate. Awareness is never exclusive, it includes everything. One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.”

Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts

“What I’ve been drawing attention to is the ‘anti-Zionist’ antisemitism that has been central to the various theses and propositions of the contemporary ‘progressive’ project. It is not evil because it is antisemitic. It is antisemitic because it is evil.”

Terry Glavin on Substack Feb. 2, 2024 [https://therealstory.substack.com/p/through-the-darkness-some-light-is].

“It left me speechful.”

Me Jan. 1 2024 when someone on an Antiques Road Show clip on YouTube said a valuation of a painting left him speechless which I almost never am.

“This book appears as the world lumberingly and indecisively turns back from the abysses which we were lucky to escape, and which still yawn. Its theme is that the main responsibility for the century’s disasters lies not so much in the problems as in the solutions, not in impersonal forces but in human beings, thinking certain thoughts and as a result performing certain actions.”

Start of “Preface” in Robert Conquest Reflections on a Ravaged Century

“I believe most of the great social reforms of our time will remain in history as Follies.”

G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News June 3, 1919, quoted in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 # 4 (March-April 2023)