Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Aphorisms - Chesterton and Lewis


Chesterton - 

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

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

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

Lewis - 

When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.

Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.

Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

I don't pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.

Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision. 




Pax et bonum

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