Worship Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

12 Worship quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Chesterton’s knack for paradox and wit makes his worship musings both entertaining and profound. This short set of 12 quotes offers a glimpse of his playful yet earnest reverence, perfect for a quick literary lift.

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Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.

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The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct…

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We are Christians and Catholics not because we worship a key, but because we have passed a door; and felt the wind…

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Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary.…

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It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of…

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There is always in the healthy mind an obscure prompting that religion teaches us rather to dig than to climb; that if…

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It has been left to the last Christians, or rather to the first Christians fully committed to blaspheming and denying Christianity, to…

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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a…

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I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But,…

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The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to…

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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

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