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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
They give you Hope.
Hope that at the end true love conquers all odds and slays every dragon. — Ameya Agrawal
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
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
[ ... ] 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
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
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