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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle — G.K. Chesterton

Fairy Tales give you more than just smile.
They give you Hope.
Hope that at the end true love conquers all odds and slays every dragon. — Ameya Agrawal

A man who has faith must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. — G.K. Chesterton

A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

You say grace before meals. I say grace before I dip the pen in the ink. — G.K. Chesterton

If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive. — G.K. Chesterton

Change is about the narrowest and hardest groove that a man can get into. — G.K. Chesterton

I am the man who knows too much to know anything, or, at any rate, to do anything, — G.K. Chesterton

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions. — G.K. Chesterton

Those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other. — G.K. Chesterton

G.K. Chesterton was the best writer of the 20th century. He said something about everything and he said it better than anybody else. — Dale Ahlquist

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Irishmen are best at the specially hard professions - the trades of iron, the lawyer, and the soldier. — G.K. Chesterton

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. — G.K. Chesterton

[ ... ] central Christian theology (sufficiently summarized in the Apostles' Creed) is the best root of energy and sound ethics. — G.K. Chesterton

Is there anyone ... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth? — Gilbert K. Chesterton

In their doubt of miracles there was a faith in a fixed and godless fate; a deep and sincere faith in the incurable routine of the cosmos. — G.K. Chesterton

The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian. — G.K. Chesterton

My best friends are all either bottomless skeptics or quite uncontrollable believers ... — G.K. Chesterton

Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written. — G.K. Chesterton

Believe me, you never know the best about men till you know the worst about them. — G.K. Chesterton

Nobody has any business to use the word "progress" unless he has a definite creed and a cast-iron code of morals. — G.K. Chesterton

Thanks are the highest form of thought. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

No man who worships education has got the best out of education ... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. — G.K. Chesterton

All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

For a large lemon moon was only just setting in the forest of high grass above their heads, — G.K. Chesterton

Coincidences are spiritual puns. — G.K. Chesterton

The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Plato has told you a truth; but Plato is dead. — G.K. Chesterton

Fairy tales are more than true ... — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Customs are generally unselfish.
Habits are nearly always selfish. — G.K. Chesterton

Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men are men, but Man is a woman. — G.K. Chesterton

Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before. — G.K. Chesterton

We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed — G.K. Chesterton

This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities. — G.K. Chesterton

As G. K. Chesterton wrote, "How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it."22 — Ann Voskamp

What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism. — G.K. Chesterton

Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed. — G.K. Chesterton

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. G. K. Chesterton — Leslie Parrott

You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Take away the supernatural, and what remains is the unnatural. — G.K. Chesterton

Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. — G.K. Chesterton