I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936), Schriftsteller
Source: What I Saw in America (über goodreads, Wortlaut nicht gegengeprüft)
Topics: Love, Service & Love of Neighbour, Relationships & Family
Occasions: For Reflection
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton war ein englischer Schriftsteller, Journalist und katholischer Apologet, der in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts in England wirkte. Bekannt wurde er durch die Kriminalgeschichten um Pater Brown sowie theologische Werke wie „Orthodoxy“, in denen er den christlichen Glauben mit pointierten Paradoxien und Zivilisationskritik verteidigte. Heutigen Bibellesern vermittelt sein Werk scharfsinnige apologetische Impulse, steht jedoch wegen wiederkehrender antijüdischer Passagen in seinen Texten auch in der Kritik.
All quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton (103)
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa
I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.
Henri Nouwen
It wasn't the nails that held Jesus to the cross. It was love.
Max Lucado
To love a person means to see them as God meant them to be.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
I ask myself: what does hell mean? I maintain: it is the inability to love.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
A drop of love is worth more than an ocean of reason.
Blaise Pascal
Love keeps no record of wrongs, but bitterness keeps detailed accounts.
Craig Groeschel
The world consists of nothing but opportunities for love.
Søren Kierkegaard