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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

The past is not what it was. — 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

You are my only friend in the world, and I want to talk to you. Or, perhaps, be silent with you. — G.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's a lot of difference between listening and hearing. — G.K. Chesterton

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

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it. — 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

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

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

No man is such a legalist as the good Secularist. — 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

German soldiers look as if they despised you, but French soldiers as if they despised you and themselves even more that you. — 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

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: When Man ceases to worship God he does not worship nothing but worships everything. — Pope Francis

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

For some extraordinary reason, there is a fixed notion that it is more liberal to disbelieve in miracles than to believe in them. — G.K. Chesterton

I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy. — G.K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton famously quipped that "those who marry the spirit of the age will find themselves widows in the next. — Miroslav Volf

All other societies die finally and with dignity. We die daily. We are always being born again with almost indecent obstetrics. — G.K. Chesterton

The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick. — G.K. Chesterton

The thousand arms of the forest were grey, and its million fingers silver. — G.K. Chesterton

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

I know that it means very — G.K. Chesterton

Nothing which is so weak for working purposes as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success. — G.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

To him, even the momentary was momentous. — G.K. Chesterton

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

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything. — G.K. Chesterton

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

Progress is a metaphor from merely walking along a road - very likely the wrong road. — G.K. Chesterton

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and should never be rationalized. — G.K. Chesterton

Irishmen are best at the specially hard professions - the trades of iron, the lawyer, and the soldier. — G.K. Chesterton

There is only one good thing science ever discovered - a good thing, good tidings of great joy - that the world is round. — G.K. Chesterton

No man knows he is young while he is young. — G.K. Chesterton

Our political vagueness divides men, it does not fuse them. — G.K. Chesterton

We're all really dependent in nearly everything, and we all make a fuss about being independent in something. — G.K. Chesterton

We do not really want a religion that is right where we are right. What we want is a religion that is right where we are wrong. — G.K. Chesterton

What happens when everyone is asleep is called Evolution. What happens when everyone is awake is called Revolution. — G.K. Chesterton

We men and women are all in the same boat, upon a stormy sea. We owe to each other a terrible and tragic loyalty. — G.K. Chesterton

The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. — P.G. Wodehouse

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

The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. — G.K. Chesterton

Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Customs are generally unselfish.
Habits are nearly always selfish. — G.K. Chesterton

Plato has told you a truth; but Plato is dead. — G.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

Satan fell by the force of gravity. — 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

A radical does not mean — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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