G. K. Chesterton

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best
advice, and then going away and doing the read more

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best
advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

'My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. read more

'My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.