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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

I might point out that the rich do not so much buy honesty as curtains to cover dishonesty. — G.K. Chesterton

He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. — G.K. Chesterton

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

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

There is only one thing that that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism. — G.K. Chesterton

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

There was a man who had a fly in his eye when he looked through the telescope, and he discovered that there was a most incredible dragon in the moon. — G.K. Chesterton

Always be comic in a tragedy — G.K. Chesterton

The blank page is God's way of letting us know how hard it is to be God. — G.K. Chesterton

A naked moon stood in a naked sky. — G.K. Chesterton

Father Brown: ... one can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place — G.K. Chesterton

It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light. — G.K. Chesterton

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

Goo-goo goo-goo goo-goo goo
Goo-goo goo-goo goo-goo
Googly, googly, googly goo:
That's how we fill a column. — G.K. Chesterton

We have eternity to stretch our legs in. — 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

We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Honour is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall-porters. — G.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

I prefer to call it reform. For reform implies form. — G.K. Chesterton

It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. — G.K. Chesterton

By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The ignorant pronounce it Frood
To cavil or applaud
The well-informed pronounce it Froyd
But I pronounce it Fraud. — G.K. Chesterton

The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily afraid of the princess. — G.K. Chesterton

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Satan fell by the force of gravity. — G.K. Chesterton

If one is talking about a vile thing it is better to talk of it in coarse language; one is less likely to be seduced into excusing it. — G.K. Chesterton

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition. — G.K. Chesterton

The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, The Odyssey because all life is a journey, The Book of Job because all life is a riddle. — G.K. Chesterton

In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd. — G.K. Chesterton

And he set to rhyme his ale-measures,
And he sang aloud his laws,
Because of the joy of giants,
The joy without a cause. — G.K. Chesterton

An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands. — G.K. Chesterton

Life (according to the faith) is very like a serial story in a magazine: life ends with the promise (or menace) "to be continued in our next. — G.K. Chesterton

Of the last two friends of yours who had the modern mind; one thought it wrong to eat fishes and the other thought it right to eat men ... — G.K. Chesterton

Progress is the mother of all problems. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

A radical does not mean — G.K. Chesterton

The moderns do not realize modernity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

tradition is truer than fashion. — G.K. Chesterton

The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad. — G.K. Chesterton

Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government. — G.K. Chesterton

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister. — G.K. Chesterton

Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all. — G.K. Chesterton

One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated. — Gilbert 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

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

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

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

If a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small. — G.K. Chesterton

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

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

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

A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics. — 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 great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

If there is one thing worse that the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals. — G.K. Chesterton

Strike a glass and it will not endure an instant. Simply do not strike it and it will endure a thousand years. — G.K. Chesterton

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

To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once. — G.K. Chesterton

Paganism declared that virtue was in a balance; Christianity declared it was in a conflict: the collision of two passions apparently opposite. Of — G.K. Chesterton

Faith means believing the unbelievable. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Tolerance is the last virtue of a man without principle. — G.K. Chesterton

The central idea of the great part of the Old Testament may be called the idea of the loneliness of God. — G.K. Chesterton

Each thing that obeys law [has] the glory and isolation of the anarchist, — G.K. Chesterton

Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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