“The blank page is God's way of letting us know how hard it is to be God.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbors.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The central idea of the great part of the Old Testament may be called the idea of the loneliness of God.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The place that the shepherds found was not an academy or an abstract republic, it was not a place of myths allegorised… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I can hardly conceive of any educated man believing in God at all without believing that God contains in Himself every perfection… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“We shall have gone deeper than the deeps of heaven and grown older than the oldest angels before we feel, even in… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There was something that He hid from all men, when he went up a mountain to pray. There was something that he… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Buddhism seeks after God with the largest conception it can find, the all-producing and all-absorbing One; Christianity seeks after God with the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Divinity is great enough to be divine; it is great enough to call itself divine. But as humanity grows greater, it grows… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I should say that there ought to be no war except religious war. If war is irreligious, it is immoral. No man… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“If the moderns really want a simple religion of love, they must look for it in the Athanasian Creed. The truth is… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Nothing, again, could be more prosaic and impenetrable than the domestic energies of Miss Diana Duke. But Innocent had somehow blundered on the discovery… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I offer my… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“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… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“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… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“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… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Man, by a blind instinct, knew that if once things were wildly questioned, reason could be questioned first. The authority of priests to absolve,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
