“Most of us have to fight for the things we think true, and especially against the things we are supposed to think true.”
G.K. Chesterton in New Witness 14/4/22 quoted in “Chesterton for Today” in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 # 4 March-April 2022
“People wishing to get organized at home should follow advice such as the One-Minute Rule, contends The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: That which takes a minute to do (or less) should be done. For instance, hang up your coat, put shoes in the proper place, use the hamper and hang up the bath towels.”
“Social Studies” in Globe &Mail January 27, 2004
“But in the end, being free means being able to be responsible. And ultimately, ‘it means being responsible to God and not to man.’”
Dale Ahlquist in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #2 (Nov.-Dec 2021) [the quoted bit almost certainly from G.K. Chesterton in the 3rd edition of G.K.’s Weekly March-September 1926]
“When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a laborer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.”
Pascal Pensées
“Any man with a large mind ought to be able to write about anything.”
G.K. Chesterton in “What Is Right With The World” quoted in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 # 4 March-April 2022
“Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.”
“Orthodoxy, by Gilbert K. Chesterton; The Maniac Page 1” according to https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/81231/what-was-g-k-chestertons-proof-of-original-sin-and-what-is-so-unique-about-it
“The best way to teach people critical thinking is to teach them to write. Because there’s no difference between that and thinking. One of the things that blows me away about universities is that no one ever tells students why they should write something. ‘Well, why are you writing?’ ‘Well, you need the grade.’ It’s like, no! You need to learn to think because thinking makes you act effectively in the world. Thinking makes you win the battles you undertake – and those could be battles for good things. If you can think, speak, and write, you are absolutely deadly. Nothing can get in your way. So that’s why you learn to write. And if you can formulate your arguments coherently, and make a presentation, if you can speak to people, if you can lay out a proposal. People give you money; they give you opportunities; you have influence. That’s what you’re at university for. Be articulate. Because that’s the most dangerous thing, you can possibly be.”
Jordan Peterson “Mondays of Meaning” email December 6, 2021
“I believe that people are stronger than their misfortunes.”
Jordan Peterson, quoting himself on Instagram 17/5/22 [https://www.instagram.com/p/CdqTBOxMOFq/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=]