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.â€
- "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).
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