G. K. Chesterton

• 29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936 (age 62).
• Anglican / Unitarian upbringing.
• Married Frances Blogg.
• Converted 30 July 1922 (age 48).

Grace

You say grace before meals. All right.
But I say grace before the play and the opera,
and grace before the concert and pantomime,
and grace before I open a book,
and grace before sketching, painting, swimming,
fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing;
and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

Bibliography

The Works of G. K. Chesterton

Chesterton, G.K. (2009-05-13). The Works of G. K. Chesterton (36 Books with active table of contents) (Kindle Locations 29-51). DD Books. Kindle Edition.

Father Brown

• The Innocence of Father Brown
• The Wisdom of Father Brown

Novels

• The Ball and the Cross
• The Barbarism of Berlin
• The Club of Queer Trades
• The Flying Inn
• Magic
• Manalive
• The Man Who Was Thursday
• The Napoleon of Notting Hill
• The Trees of Pride

Non-Fiction

• Alarms and Discursions
• Appreciations and Criticism
• All Things Considered
• The Appetite of Tyranny
• The Crimes of England
• Eugenics and Other Evils
• Heretics
• Irish Impressions
• A Miscellany of Men
• The New Jerusalem
• Orthodoxy
• A Short History of England
• The Superstition of Divorce
• Tremendous Trifles
• Twelve Types
• Utopia of Usurers
• Varied Types
• The Victorian Age in Literature
• What I Saw in America
• What's Wrong With the World

Biographies

• Lord Kitchener
• Robert Browning
• Robert Louis Stevenson
• Shaw

Other works

• The Catholic Church and Conversion

Quotations

• "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly."
• “This triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.”
• "We do not want, as the newspapers say, a Church that will move with the world. We want a Church that will move the world . . . It is by that test that history will really judge, of any Church, whether it is the real Church or no" (Ffinch, 277).
• "The difficulty of explaining why I am a Catholic is that there are 10,000 reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true" (O'Brien, 231).
• A "holiday" is "a holy day, a word that will always answer the ignorant slander which [says] that religion was opposed to human cheerfulness, and will always assert that when a day is holy, it should also be happy; a restoring thing that, by a blast of magic, turns man into himself" (The Universe According to G. K. Chesterton, 54-55).
• "If there were no God, there would be no atheists" (G.K. Chesterton. "Where All Roads Lead", 1922).

Links

• Wikipedia, "G. K. Chesterton."
• Prayer for the Beatification of G. K. Chesterton.
• "Chesterton's Conversion Story."