“suddenly, sex is something we chat about at Starbucks, while God is something we read about by flashlight under the covers.”
Dahlia Lithwick in Ottawa Citizen October 24, 1999
“the only serious reason which I can imagine inducing any one person to listen to any other is, that the first person looks to the second person with an ardent faith and a fixed attention, expecting him to say what he does not expect him to say…. clearly it is quite true that whenever we go to hear a prophet or teacher we may or may not expect wit, we may or may not expect eloquence, but we do expect what we do not expect. We may not expect the true, we may not even expect the wise, but we do expect the unexpected. If we do not expect the unexpected, why do we go there at all? If we expect the expected, why do we not sit at home and expect it by ourselves?”
G.K. Chesterton Heretics
“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.”
Seneca Epistulae Morales #71 section 3 quoted (among many other places) by https://libquotes.com/seneca/quote/lbt5f6w
“miracle: the liberty of God; an event that means Materialism is nonsense.”
G.K. Chesterton, “The Romance of Orthodoxy” in Orthodoxy and “An Example and a Question” in Irish Impressions according to “Chesternitions” in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 7 #3 (Dec. 2003)
“The nice thing about life is that you never know what is going to happen next. The problem with death is that you do know what is going to happen next. Nothing.”
Steve Bridge, a cryonics enthusiast, quoted in National Review September 2, 1996
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
Henry David Thoreau, quoted as standalone “WORDS OF WISDOM” in Epoch Times email February 6, 2022
“my brain filled to bursting with stories and legends of the spirits and deities of places that have been acknowledged and worshipped by men in all ages of the world’s history.”
“The Willows” in Algernon Blackwood Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood
“For a monster with mysterious eyes and miraculous thumbs, with strange dreams in his skull, and a queer tenderness for this place or that baby, is truly a wonderful and unnerving matter.”
G.K. Chesterton, quoted by Frances Farrell in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 3 #8, July/August 2000