“It does not deal much with abstractions; it is the truest of all (...), because it does not speak much about love.… — G.K. Chesterton Every man Copy Share Image
“Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only… — G.K. Chesterton Common sense Copy Share Image
“What the gods are supposed to be, what the priests are commissioned to say, is not a sensational secret like what those… — G.K. Chesterton Evangelism Copy Share Image
“They stoned the false prophets, it is said; but they could have stoned true prophets with a greater and juster enjoyment.” — G.K. Chesterton False prophets Copy Share Image
“He spoke in that sweet and steely voice which he reserved for great occasions and practiced for hours together in his bedroom.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It was like the face of some ancient archangel, judging justly after heroic wars. There was laughter in the eyes, and in… — G.K. Chesterton War Copy Share Image
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” — G.K. Chesterton Inspirational Copy Share Image
“We are in the presence of a thousand lies all pointing with their fantastic fingers to one undiscovered truth.” — G.K. Chesterton Truth Copy Share Image
“In the same way, we read a great deal about the Spirit of Christmas in modern journalism or commercialism; but it is… — G.K. Chesterton Christmas Copy Share Image
“It is easy to be a madman: it is easy to be a heretic. It is always easy to let the age… — G.K. Chesterton Christian science Copy Share Image
“The favourite evolutionary argument finds its best answer in the axe. The Evolutionist says, "Where do you draw the line?" the Revolutionist… — G.K. Chesterton Biology Copy Share Image
“The man who said, "Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed," put the eulogy quite inadequately and… — G.K. Chesterton Expectations 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 Camaraderie Copy Share Image
“Let me explain a little: Certain things are bad so far as they go, such as pain, and no one, not even… — G.K. Chesterton Good enough Copy Share Image
“I don't want the universe broken up just yet," drawled the Marquis. "I want to do a lot of beastly things before… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I am sure that it was only because Michael Angelo was engaged in the ancient and honourable occupation of lying in bed… — G.K. Chesterton Art Copy Share Image
“A child kicks his legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit… — G.K. Chesterton Children Copy Share Image
“The devil takes us to the top of an exceeding high mountain and makes us dizzy; but God lets us look at… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is… — G.K. Chesterton Time Copy Share Image
“It needs a sort of stretch of imagination to see the obvious objects against the obvious background; and especially the big objects… — G.K. Chesterton Earth and sky Copy Share Image
“War in the wide modern sense, is possible, not because more men disagree, but because more men agree.” — G.K. Chesterton War Copy Share Image
“Change is about the narrowest and hardest groove that a man can get into.” — G.K. Chesterton Change Copy Share Image
“I found the whole modern world talking scientific fatalism; saying that everything is as it must always have been, being unfolded without… — G.K. Chesterton Creation Copy Share Image
“I feel grateful for the slight sprain which has introduced this mysterious and fascinating division between one of my feet and the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The moment sex ceases to be a servant it becomes a tyrant.” — G.K. Chesterton Addiction Copy Share Image
