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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
You say grace before meals. I say grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
— G.K. Chesterton
I am the man who knows too much to know anything, or, at any rate, to do anything,
— G.K. Chesterton
You start reading C.S. Lewis, then you're reading G.K. Chesterton, then you're a Catholic.
— Ross Douthat
As G. K. Chesterton wrote, "How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it."22
— Ann Voskamp
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
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
— Gilbert 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
What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.
— G.K. Chesterton
Men are men, but Man is a woman.
— G.K. Chesterton
This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.
— G.K. Chesterton
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed
— G.K. Chesterton
Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.
— 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
Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish. — G.K. Chesterton
Fairy tales are more than true ...
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Plato has told you a truth; but Plato is dead.
— G.K. Chesterton
When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Coincidences are spiritual puns.
— G.K. Chesterton
For a large lemon moon was only just setting in the forest of high grass above their heads,
— G.K. Chesterton
