“Chesterton calls Jerusalem, ‘the shoulder of the world,’ a place that demonstrates the truth of ‘the hardest of all the hard sayings of supernaturalism: that there is such a thing as holy and unholy ground.’”
Dale Ahlquist in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 7 #5 (March 2004) discussing [and I presume quoting] G.K. Chesterton’s 1920 account of his travels to Palestine in The New Jerusalem
“The chief aim of order is to give room for good things to run wild.”
G.K. Chesterton quoted as header quotation by Fr. Robert Wild in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #5 (May/June 2022)
“‘man will live forevermore because of Christmas day,’ as Harry Belafonte put it in those more confident times a mere 40 years ago…”
Mark Steyn in National Post December 24, 1999 [so 60 years ago now and the cultural and intellectual situation has not improved]
“The philosopher Alfred North Whitehead said that the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.”
Richard John Neuhaus in First Things March 2000
“Liberty is traditional and conservative; it remembers its legends and its heroes. But tyranny is always young and seemingly innocent, and asks us to forget the past.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News December 30, 1911, quoted in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #5 (May/June 2022)
“We never let a quarrel interrupt a good argument.”
G.K. Chesterton, quoted as header quotation by Chris Chan in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #5 (May/June 2022)
“trying to say (at the same time) that God does not exist, and that He ought to be ashamed of existing, or possibly that he ought to be ashamed of not existing; an artistic effect that depends on belief. If any one doubts this, let him sit down seriously and try to think blasphemous thoughts about Thor.”
G.K. Chesterton in “The End of the Moderns,” in The Common Man and “Introductory Remarks,” in Heretics in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 6 #1 (Sept. 2002)
“Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.”
James Baldwin, quoted in Jon Winokur Zen to Go