“The vulgar modern argument used against religion, and lately against common decency, would be absolutely fatal to any idea of liberty. It… — G.K. Chesterton Atheism Copy Share Image
“To each man one soul only is given; to each soul only is given a little power - the power at some… — G.K. Chesterton Spirituality Copy Share Image
“White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as… — G.K. Chesterton Color Copy Share Image
“Blessed are they who have not seen and yet have believed: a passage which some have considered as a prophecy of modern… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Nonsense!' said Gregory, who was very rational when anyone else attempted paradox.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Of course sane people always thought the aim of marriage was the procreation of children to the glory of God or according… — G.K. Chesterton Children Copy Share Image
“For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It… — G.K. Chesterton Every morning Copy Share Image
“I want to adore the world, not as one likes a looking-glass, because it is one’s self, but as one loves a… — G.K. Chesterton Fall in love Copy Share Image
“I cannot understand the people who take literature seriously; but I can love them, and I do. Out of my love I… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“The perplexity of life arises from their being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any… — G.K. Chesterton Adventure Copy Share Image
“A man is perfectly entitled to laugh at a thing because he happens to find it incomprehensible. What he has no right… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Now here comes in the whole collapse and huge blunder of our age. We have mixed up two different things, two opposite… — G.K. Chesterton Changing the world Copy Share Image
“But when fundamentals are doubted, as at present, we must try to recover the candour and wonder of the child; the unspoilt… — G.K. Chesterton Childlike wonder Copy Share Image
“If I beat my grandmother to death to-morrow in the middle of Battersea Park, you may be perfectly certain that people will… — G.K. Chesterton Aesthetics Copy Share Image
“I had tried to be happy by telling myself that man is an animal, like any other which sought its meat from… — G.K. Chesterton Happiness Copy Share Image
“When I was a boy there were two curious men running about who were called the optimist and the pessimist. I constantly… — G.K. Chesterton Pessimism Copy Share Image
“For the two things that a healthy person hates most between heaven and hell are a woman who is not dignified and… — G.K. Chesterton Health Copy Share Image
“The hardest thing to remember about our time, of course, is simply that it is a time- we all instinctively think of… — G.K. Chesterton Hardest thing Copy Share Image
“There are degrees of seriousness," replied Syme. "I have never doubted that you were perfectly sincere in this sense, that you thought… — G.K. Chesterton Sincerity Copy Share Image
“Through all this ordeal his root horror had been isolation, and there are no words to express the abyss between isolation and… — G.K. Chesterton Allies Copy Share Image
“Saint-worship is not the same as hero-worship; it is a much less dangerous thing than hero-worship. For hero-worship generally means the absorption… — G.K. Chesterton Religion Copy Share Image
“And in history I found that Christianity, so far from belonging to the Dark Ages, was the one path across the Dark… — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is… — G.K. Chesterton Artist love Copy Share Image
“Then the man smiled, and his smile was a shock, for it was all on one side, going up in the right… — G.K. Chesterton Crooked Copy Share Image
