Faith Quotes by G.K. Chesterton

17 Faith quotes by G.K. Chesterton

Chesterton’s take on faith stitches together humor, paradox, and deep conviction. His 17 short observations invite you to see belief through a playful, yet thoughtful lens, offering a fresh spin on an age‑old theme.

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“Life (according to the faith) is very like a serial story in a magazine: life ends with the promise (or menace) "to…

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“In short, the democratic faith is this: that the most terribly important things must be left to ordinary men themselves—the mating of…

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“Charity means pardoning what is unpardonable, or it is no virtue at all. Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it…

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“Happiness is a state of the soul; a state in which our natures are full of the wine of an ancient youth,…

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Those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither…

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“Does it never strike you that doubt can be a madness, as well as faith? That asking questions may be a disease,…

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“For our Titanic purposes of faith and revolution, what we need is not the cold acceptance of the world as a compromise,…

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“Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If…

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“What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition and settled upon…

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“I mean that we here are on the wrong side of the tapestry,' answered Father Brown. 'The things that happen here do…

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“You do believe it,' he said. 'You do believe everything. We all believe everything, even when we deny everything. The denyers believe.…

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“The pagan, or rational, virtues are such things as justice and temperance, and Christianity has adopted them. The three mystical virtues which…

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“Briefly, this human belief in a sexual bond rests on a principle of which the modern mind has made a very inadequate…

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“For most people there is a fascinating inconsistency in the position of St. Francis. He expressed in loftier and bolder language than…

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“It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is…

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“When the business man rebukes the idealism of his office-boy, it is commonly in some such speech as this: "Ah, yes, when…

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“Charity means pardoning what is unpardonable, or it is no virtue at all. Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it…

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“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading…

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“Nothing, again, could be more prosaic and impenetrable than the domestic energies of Miss Diana Duke. But Innocent had somehow blundered on the discovery…

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“The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I offer my…

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“ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How…

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“The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do…

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“Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy….The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can rule the…

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“There was a short railway official travelling up to the terminus, three fairly short market-gardeners picked up two stations afterwards, one very short widow…

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“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.”

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“Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.”

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“There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected…

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“Man, by a blind instinct, knew that if once things were wildly questioned, reason could be questioned first. The authority of priests to absolve,…

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“It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act…

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“But in order that life should be a story or romance to us, it is necessary that a great part of it, at any…

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“Buddhism seeks after God with the largest conception it can find, the all-producing and all-absorbing One; Christianity seeks after God with the most elementary…

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“Man is more himself, more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing and grief superficial.”

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