“When the old Liberals removed the gags from all the heresies, their idea was that religious and philosophical discoveries might thus be… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There are two ways of renouncing the devil,” he said; “and the difference is perhaps the deepest chasm in modern religion. One… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Of all horrible religions the most horrible is the worship of hte god within.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“This is not a university town full of philosophies; it is a Zion of the hundred sieges raging with religions; not a… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The substance of all such paganism may be summarised thus. It is an attempt to reach the divine reality through the imagination… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Christianity is the only religion on earth that has felt that omnipotence made God incomplete. Christianity alone has felt that God, to… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The truth is, I think, that they are caught in a sort of argument in a circle. Their vague philosophy says to… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The Fear of the Lord, that is the beginning of wisdom, and therefore belongs to the beginnings, and is felt in the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Briefly, then, we dismiss the two opposite dangers of bigotry and fanaticism, bigotry which is a too great vagueness and fanaticism which… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The moment men begin to care more for education than for religion they begin to care more for ambition than for education.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Suppose that a great commotion arises in the street about something, let us say a lamp-post, which many influential persons desire to… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The moment men begin to care more for education than for religion, they begin to care more for ambition than for education.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Men are moved most by their religion; especially when it is irreligion.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“People are very curious nowadays in their way of talking about "the spirit" of a thing. There is, for example, a particular… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The materialist philosophy (whether true or not) is certainly much more limiting than any religion. In one sense, of course, all intelligent… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“When duty and religion are really destroyed, it will be by the rich.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The worst moment for an atheist is when he is really thankful and has no one to thank.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Then may I ask you to swear by whatever gods or saints your religion involves that you will not reveal what I… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Much of our modern difficulty, in religion and other things, arises merely from this: that we confuse the word "indefinable" with the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Now the best relation to our spiritual home is to be near enough to love it. But the next best is to… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The devil can quote Scripture for his purpose; and the text of Scripture which he now most commonly quotes is, “The Kingdom… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“In short, the democratic faith is this: that the most terribly important things must be left to ordinary men themselves—the mating of… — 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
