“This capacity to be fully engaged in the moment yet simultaneously aware of its historic or cultural context was a special trait…”

Electra Slonimsky Yourke’s “Foreword” in Nicolas Slonimsky Perfect Pitch

“The greatest of all Chesterton’s gifts was his charity, and he carried it to a very high point; for he suffered fools gladly."

Fulton J. Sheed in “G.K. Chesterton,” in Sidelights on the Catholic Revival, quoted by James V. Schall in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 7 #2 (Oct.-Nov. 2003)

“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.”

Harry F. Banks (emailed by a friend)

“Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, ‘I will not hit you if you do not hit me’; there is no trace of such a transaction. There is a trace of both men having said, ‘We must not hit each other in the holy place.’”

G.K. Chesterton Orthodoxy

“’Truth is not only stranger, but much more blood-curdling than fiction.”

G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News December 31, 1921 quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. VIII #7 (June 2005)

In a speech to the Augustine College Summer Seminar in June (sorry, I’m a bit behind in my video editing) I argue that the calamities of the 20th century derived, fundamentally, from a rejection of the notion of truth.

“one need not be a strategist to keep out of the way of a motor-bus.”

Father Brown in G.K. Chesterton Favorite Father Brown Stories