“In short, I had always believed that the world involved magic; now I thought that perhaps it involved a magician.”
G.K. Chesterton, as header quotation on inaugural column by Brent Forrest, who was a professional magician, not further attributed, in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #1 (September-October 2024)
“It is impossible to caricature that which caricatures itself.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News Dec. 16, quoted in “Can’t You Take A Joke?” in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 27 #2 (November/December 2023)
“We have not any need to rebel against antiquity; we have to rebel against novelty.”
G.K. Chesterton “The Eternal Revolution” in Orthodoxy quoted in “Chesterton for Today” in Gilbert! The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 27 #4 (March/April 2024)
“A fool and his money are soon partying.”
“Tagline from the Internet” quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 3 #5 (March 2000)
“Finally, there is the great passage in ‘The Ethics of Elfland’ where Chesterton suggests that the sun may rise in response to God saying ‘Do it again,’ each day. One of our Chesterton Academy students responded to this passage in her senior capstone essay by saying, ‘This claim is supported by the fact that the sun refused to shine on the day men killed God.’”
Joshua Russell, “Headmaster at Chesterton Academy of the Sacred Heart in Peoria, Illinois” in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #1 (September-October 2024)
“A joke can be so big that it breaks the roof of the stars.”
G.K. Chesterton in “The Dickens Period” in Charles Dickens, quoted in “Can’t You Take A Joke?” in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 27 #2 (November/December 2023)
“Like most thinkers of his time, [Marcus] Aurelius conceived philosophy not as a speculative description of infinity, but as a school of virtue and a way of life. He hardly bothers to make up his mind about God; sometimes he talks like an agnostic, acknowledging that he does not know; but having made that admission, he accepts the traditional faith with a simple piety. ‘Of what worth is it to me,’ he asks, ‘to live in a universe without gods or Providence?’”
Will Durant Caesar and Christ
“Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”
2 Timothy 3:7 [King James Version]