“The blank page is God's way of letting us know how hard it is to be God.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“We are all revenants; all living Christians are dead pagans walking about.” — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“The moment sex ceases to be a servant it becomes a tyrant.” — G.K. Chesterton Addiction Copy Share Image
“Each thing that obeys law [has] the glory and isolation of the anarchist.” — G.K. Chesterton Anarchist 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 Lies 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 Revolt 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
“Whenever he gives advice it is always something as startling as an epigram, and yet as practical as the Bank of England.” — G.K. Chesterton Phrasing Copy Share Image
“People always brag about their vices; it is when they begin to brag about their virtues that they become insufferable.” — G.K. Chesterton Character Copy Share Image
“We’re all really dependent in nearly everything, and we all make a fuss about being independent in something.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening "Do it again" to the… — G.K. Chesterton Every morning Copy Share Image
“Father Brown: ... one can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place” — G.K. Chesterton Father Copy Share Image
“Just as one generation could prevent the very existence of the next generation, by all entering a monastery or jumping into the… — G.K. Chesterton Human thought Copy Share Image
“A man who thinks much about success must be the drowsiest sentimentalist; for he must be always looking back. If he only… — G.K. Chesterton Success Copy Share Image
“I did, indeed, retain a cloudy reverence for a cosmic deity and a great historical interest in the Founder of Christianity. But… — G.K. Chesterton Reverence Copy Share Image
“The modern evil, we have said, greatly turns on this: that people do not see that the exception proves the rule. Thus… — G.K. Chesterton 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
“We must not hate humanity, or despise humanity, or refuse to help humanity; but we must not trust humanity; in the sense… — G.K. Chesterton 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
“Unfortunately he was one of those who always tend to take their own fancies seriously; and in whose otherwise legitimate extravagance there… — G.K. Chesterton Extravagance Copy Share Image
“I'll tell you what, you fellows," said the sprawling gentleman, confidentially, while Evan's agonized ears heard behind him the first paces of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know that they are dogmas.… — G.K. Chesterton Another world Copy Share Image
“Can you not see," I said, "that fairy tales in their essence are quite solid and straightforward; but that this everlasting fiction… — G.K. Chesterton Fairy Copy Share Image
“The test of all happiness is gratitude; and I felt grateful, though I hardly knew to whom. Children are grateful when Santa… — G.K. Chesterton Birthday Copy Share Image
“Now I myself, I cheerfully admit, feel that enormity in Kensington Gardens as something quite natural. I feel it so because I… — G.K. Chesterton Aesthetics Copy Share Image
“The Eugenic optimism seems to partake generally of the nature of that dazzled and confused confidence, so common in private theatricals, that… — G.K. Chesterton Confidence Copy Share Image
“Every man has forgotten who he is. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Mr. Blatchford attacks Christianity because he is mad on one Christian virtue: the merely mystical and almost irrational virtue of charity. He… — G.K. Chesterton Christian Copy Share Image
“Until we realize that things might not be we cannot realize that things are.” — G.K. Chesterton Philosophical Copy Share Image
“The real objection to modernism is simply that it is a form of snobbishness.” — G.K. Chesterton Modernism Copy Share Image
“The modern State has educated its citizens in a series of ephemeral fads.” — G.K. Chesterton Education Copy Share Image
“Lying in bed would be an altogether supreme experience if one only had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the… — G.K. Chesterton Artist Copy Share Image
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