“When the art of controversy comes back, it will not come from the world of sceptics and iconoclasts. It will come rather from the world of believers and of dogmatists. It will not be the work of men who merely ask questions, but of men who believe that they have found answers. It will come out of the clash of real convictions, which are positive and not negative; not from those who say: ‘What is truth,’ but from those who can still say: ‘This is truth’; not from Pilate but from Paul.”

G.K. Chesterton in New Witness Sept. 8, 1922, quoted in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 # 4 (March-April 2023)

“All things begin in the mind.”

G.K. Chesterton in “The Story of the Statues,” in The Resurrection of Rome, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 11 #4 (Jan.-Feb. 2008)

“To look to the future is merely to forge a testimonial from the babe unborn.”

G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News Nov. 3, 1917, quoted in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 # 2 (Nov.-Dec. 2022)

“What I’ve been drawing attention to is the ‘anti-Zionist’ antisemitism that has been central to the various theses and propositions of the contemporary ‘progressive’ project. It is not evil because it is antisemitic. It is antisemitic because it is evil.”

Terry Glavin on Substack Feb. 2, 2024 [https://therealstory.substack.com/p/through-the-darkness-some-light-is].

In my latest Epoch Times column I say Canada has a pressing problem with letting jihadis into the country… and it’s that those in charge don’t see any problem with it.

“I believe most of the great social reforms of our time will remain in history as Follies.”

G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News June 3, 1919, quoted in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 # 4 (March-April 2023)

“His cynical grin had about it the grin of death; he grinned like a triumphant skull.”

Philip K. Dick VALIS [re the character Kevin]

“‘The original Latin word [from which distraction is derived] does not mean relaxation; it means being torn asunder as by wild horses. The original Greek word, which corresponds to it, is used in the text which says that Judas burst asunder in the midst.’”

G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News July 16, 1910, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 6 #3 (December 2002)