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Believe Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

32 Believe quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Chesterton’s paradoxes dance around belief, revealing deeper truths through playful contradictions. Across thirty‑two quotes, his clever turns of phrase invite readers to see conviction from fresh angles, balancing levity with a subtle moral undercurrent.

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Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.

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When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything

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Faith means believing the unbelievable.

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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.

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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

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Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.

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...It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.

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Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.

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There is only one reason an intelligent person doesn't believe in miracles. He or she believes in materialism.

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I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed…

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All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

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The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.

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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends…

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I do not believe that any human being is fundamentally happier for being finally lost in a crowd, even if it is…

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The Christian is quite free to believe that there is a considerable amount of settled order and inevitable development in the universe.…

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If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the…

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Every one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on…

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Such professions as the soldier and the lawyer ... give ample opportunity for crimes but not much for mere illusions. ... If…

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This is, first and last, the real value of Christmas; in so far as the mythology remains at all it is a…

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Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them;…

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An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age…

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We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of…

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Every true artist does feel, consciously or unconsciously, that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen…

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The Byzantines hammered away at their hard and orthodox symbols, because they could not be in a mood to believe that men…

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Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn…

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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticize the government. Once abolish the…

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

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The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe…

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If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.

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Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it…

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When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.

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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the…

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Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.

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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

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Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes…

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For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the…

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Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.

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A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People…

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The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.

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Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?

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What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a…

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Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

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The word good has many meanings...

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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage…

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