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