Faith Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A faith is that which is able to survive a mood.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Faith means believing the unbelievable.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Man is at his tallest when he bows.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the convent and the pirate-galley, the night-club…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A man will not roll in the snow for a stream of tendency by which all things fulfill the law of their…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Religious and philosophical beliefs are, indeed, as dangerous as fire, and nothing can take from them that beauty of danger. But there…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic,…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The people who are most bigoted are those who have no conviction at all.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton