“It is not the man of the world who appreciates the world.”
G.K. Chesterton in Daily News December 5, 2001, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 10 #7 (June-July, 2007)
“Why is experience so useless? One explanation is that most people are lazy and would rather not learn from the past. Instead, they hover in a gauzy present, one that has as little connection to what happened 10 years ago as to 10,000 years ago.”
Paul Kedrosky in National Post December 29, 1998
“The only thing I am afraid of is fear.”
The Duke of Wellington according to AZ Quotes [https://www.azquotes.com/author/15482-Duke_of_Wellington]
“You don’t have to be able to walk on water; you just have to be able to float.”
Another reader-submitted entry in their “Thought du Jour” contest, from Robert Anderson, in Globe & Mail November 4, 2002
“The Sacred Texts: Canadian perspectives on the Bible, Qu’ran, Torah, and their place in modern society/ Majority see positive lessons in Bible, but many Christians believe it has dated views on sexuality, gender”
Subject line/hed and deck on email teaser from the Angus Reid Institute December 12, 2022.
“Dare to be naive.”
R. Buckminster Fuller [emailed by a friend and widely quoted online but I don’t have a precise source].
“there is scarcely anything that could offend me in modern England which is not far more offensive in modern Germany. It is there that these things have had their real success; it is there that they will have their real failure. You may say that Germany leads the modern world. You may, if you like, say that Germany is the modern world. But, if that be so, what is called the modern world is, amid general rejoicings, coming to an end. With all its mirthless cynicism, with all its unmanly militarism, with its sham science and shifty diplomacy, with its excuses for the powerful and its routine for the poor, with its long words of explanation and its very short cuts in conduct, with all its care of the self, and all its carelessness of the soul, what some call the Modern Spirit is cast out of heaven like Lucifer, Son of the Morning. It is cut down to the earth, that did weaken the nations.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News, September 9, 2016, quoted in “GKC on Scripture * Conducted by Peter Floriani” in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 #1 (Sept.-Oct. 2022)
“My Al-Anon friend told me about the frazzled, defeated wife of an alcoholic man who kept passing out on the front lawn in the middle of the night. The wife kept dragging him in before dawn so the neighbors wouldn’t see him, until finally an old black woman from the South came up to her one day after a meeting and said, ‘Honey? Leave him lay where Jesus flang him.’”
Anne Lamott Some Instructions on Writing and Life