Laughter and Humility (GK-CHESTERTON.ORG)

We are constantly reminded, especially by those stunted sceptics who seem never to get beyond one step in thought, that many of the popular ...

From the latest "Gilbert" magazine (November/December 2025), an interesting bit of news: BBC Television has announced plans to ma...

 "I want to pay tribute...to G.K. Chesterton, whose paradoxical and savory wisdom was a knighthood of God." -Jacques Maritain...

If there is one question which the enlightened and liberal have the habit of deriding and holding up as a dreadful example of barren dogma a...

It seems nowadays to be counted a prodigy that the truisms can come true. The discovery that a new notion is nonsense is itself treated as a...

Satan rebuking sin is a mild figure of speech for the enormous notion of a politician denouncing deceptions. -December 22, 1906, Illustrate...

Science and mathematics writer Martin Gardner was a noted Chestertonian, and reprinted about one-third of the chapter "The Ethics of El...

[Modern] social reform is something much worse than giving all wealth to the Government. It is rather giving all government to the wealthy. ...

If optimism means a general approval, it is certainly true that the more a man becomes an optimist the more he becomes a melancholy man. If ...

The great strength of Christian sanctity has always been simply this - that the worst enemies of the saints could not say of the saints anyt...

The truth is that our public life consists almost exclusively of small men. Our public men are small because they have to prove that they ar...

When I was in America I had the feeling that it was far more foreign than France or even than Ireland. And by foreign I mean fascinating rat...