God Quotes by G.K. Chesterton

12 God quotes by G.K. Chesterton

Even a brief selection captures Chesterton’s flair for turning ordinary observations into profound revelations about the divine. Readers will find his trademark humor and depth woven together in a compact, thought‑provoking package.

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“The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god.”

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“The blank page is God's way of letting us know how hard it is to be God.”

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“The central idea of the great part of the Old Testament may be called the idea of the loneliness of God.”

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“We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbors.”

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“The place that the shepherds found was not an academy or an abstract republic, it was not a place of myths allegorised…

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“I can hardly conceive of any educated man believing in God at all without believing that God contains in Himself every perfection…

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“We shall have gone deeper than the deeps of heaven and grown older than the oldest angels before we feel, even in…

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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…

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“Divinity is great enough to be divine; it is great enough to call itself divine. But as humanity grows greater, it grows…

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“I should say that there ought to be no war except religious war. If war is irreligious, it is immoral. No man…

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“There was something that He hid from all men, when he went up a mountain to pray. There was something that he…

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“If the moderns really want a simple religion of love, they must look for it in the Athanasian Creed. The truth is…

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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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