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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what? — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical. — G.K. Chesterton

why, nobody's ever survived it! Look at all the people married since Adam and Eve - and all as dead as mutton. — G.K. Chesterton

Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors. — G.K. Chesterton

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

Old G.K. knew when to fast and when to down a good ale. It's the timing. It's all in the timing. [On G.K. Chesterton] — Michael D. O'Brien

The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it. — G.K. Chesterton

Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly, — 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's a lot of difference between listening and hearing. — G.K. Chesterton

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

It is always easy to let the age have its head; the difficult thing is to keep one's own. — G.K. Chesterton

But it's my reading of human nature that a man will cheat in his trade, but not in his hobby. — 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

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

For the moral basis, it is obvious that man's ethical responsibility varies with his knowledge of consequences — 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

You start reading C.S. Lewis, then you're reading G.K. Chesterton, then you're a Catholic. — Ross Douthat

The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right. — G.K. Chesterton

If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing, keep behind him. — G.K. Chesterton

Her finger-nails were painted five different colours, looking like the paints in a child's paintbox; and she was as innocent as a child. — G.K. Chesterton

One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are many ways to fall down, but there's only one way to stand up straight. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

When will people understand that it is useless for a man to read his Bible unless he also reads everybody else's Bible? — 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

Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Has it never struck you that a man who does next to nothing but hear men's real sins is not likely to be wholly unaware of human evil? — G.K. Chesterton

Can it be the old devil's house? I've heard he has a house in North London. — G.K. Chesterton

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I started reading G. K. Chesterton's 'The Man Who Was Thursday' on a subway ride, almost missed my stop, and walked home thumbing pages. — Kate Christensen

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) . — Gilbert K. Chesterton

No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be ... — Gilbert K. Chesterton

It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

If the apple hit Newton's nose, Newton's nose hit the apple. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong ... A stiff apology is a second insult. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. — G.K. Chesterton

The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried ... not that it can't remake the world, but that it's difficult. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

My brain feels like a bomb, night and day. It must expand! It must expand! A man's brain must expand, if it breaks up the universe. — G.K. Chesterton

My brain and this world don't fit each other; and there's an end of it. — G.K. Chesterton

To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions. — G.K. Chesterton

For the critics who think Chesterton frivolous or 'paradoxical' I have to work hard to feel even pity; sympathy is out of the question. — C.S. Lewis

It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

He might be living on mice, but Chesterton does not look like an animal who is governed by his appetites. He's an ascetic, if Cathbad ever saw one. — Elly Griffiths

When you with velvets mantled o'er, Defy December's tempests frore, Oh! spare one garment from your store, To clothe the poor at Christmas. — 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