“But the truth is that there is no more conscious inconsistency between the humility of a Christian and the rapacity of a… — G.K. Chesterton Catholic Copy Share Image
“He had the notion that because I am a clergyman I should believe anything. Many people have little notions of that kind.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“First, it must be realized that liveliness in the preacher does not mean liveliness in the congregation. On the contrary, the extreme… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Why does each thing on the earth war against each other thing? Why does each small thing in the world have to… — G.K. Chesterton Inspirational Copy Share Image
“Where does a wise man hide a pebble?" And the tall man answered in a low voice: "On the beach." The small… — G.K. Chesterton Small man Copy Share Image
“It is a good thing for a man to live in a family for the same reason that it is a good… — G.K. Chesterton Brotherhood Copy Share Image
“It's bad enough that a gang of infernal Jews should plant us here, where there's no earthly English interest to serve, and… — G.K. Chesterton Judaism Copy Share Image
“The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated… — G.K. Chesterton Character Copy Share Image
“Father Brown was made of two men. There was a man of action, who was as modest as a primrose and as… — G.K. Chesterton Free thought Copy Share Image
“The wise man will follow a star, low and large and fierce in the heavens, but the nearer he comes to it… — G.K. Chesterton Inspirational Copy Share Image
“Naturally, therefore, these people talk about 'a happy time coming'; 'the paradise of the future'; 'mankind freed from the bondage of vice… — G.K. Chesterton Anarchists Copy Share Image
“I don’t think you do,’ said Father Brown, with simplicity. ‘You say this thing was done by spiritual powers. What spiritual powers?… — G.K. Chesterton Parenting Copy Share Image
“The Christian admits that the universe is manifold and even miscellaneous, just as a sane man knows that he is complex. The… — G.K. Chesterton Christian Copy Share Image
“To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labours, and holidays; to be Whitely within a certain area, providing… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“When everything about a people is for the time growing weak and ineffective, it begins to talk about efficiency. So it is… — G.K. Chesterton Biology Copy Share Image
“Each thing that obeys law [has] the glory and isolation of the anarchist.” — G.K. Chesterton Law Copy Share Image
“You know I always liked you," said Fisher, quietly, "but I also respect you, which is not always the same thing. You… — G.K. Chesterton Good man Copy Share Image
“And it did certainly appear that the prophets had put the people (engaged in the old game of Cheat the Prophet) in… — G.K. Chesterton Wild things Copy Share Image
“What again could this astonishing thing be like which people were so anxious to contradict, that in doing so they did not… — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“It is always simple to fall; there are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.… — G.K. Chesterton Christian science Copy Share Image
“The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god.” — G.K. Chesterton God Copy Share Image
“The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic.” — G.K. Chesterton Humanity Copy Share Image
“There was one special thing you promised me at the beginning of the affair, and which you have certainly given me by… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Humility is perpetually putting us back in the primal darkness. There all light is lightning, startling and instantaneous. Until we understand that… — G.K. Chesterton Darkness Copy Share Image
“But of all the instances of error arising from this physical fancy, the worst is that we have before us: the habit… — G.K. Chesterton Habits Copy Share Image
