Laughter and Humility (GK-CHESTERTON.ORG)

...And the whole object of real art, of real romance - and, above all, of real religion - is to prevent people from losing the humility and ...

...the only truly traditional tradition is one that is still a living thing. -August 30, 1924, Illustrated London News

As a matter of fact, of course, all education is religious education- and never more than when it is irreligious education. It either teache...

"....he is really a liberal and reasonable man. But by being perpetually in office he has let that pompous manner get worse and worse, ...

[An excerpt from a GKC essay with the paradoxical title (and thesis) "That an Irregular Expenditure Improves the Morals"] I believ...

"Yes," said Hood, "your expert is very expert, isn't he- in writing books?"  Sir Samuel Bliss stiffened in all his b...

A little early for Christmas, but I just came across this wonderful narration on Youtube of GKC's Christmas "ghost story" (fro...

The people who trust to derivations are always wrong: for they ignore the life and adventures of a word, and all that it has done since it w...

But there is not only doubt about mystical things; not even only about moral things. There is most doubt of all about rational things. I do ...

[I]magination is the signal of instinct. Journalism only tells us what men are doing; it is fiction that tells us what they are thinking, an...

Every kind of bureaucratic busybody has swarmed round the poor man's house until his whole authority in it has been hollowed out and eat...

From the latest issue of Gilbert (March/April 2023), on p. 33, there is this interesting tidbit: So, Fr. O'Conner's guidance and e...