Selected quotes · 32
№ 01
“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”
G.K. ChestertonFaith
№ 02
“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.”
G.K. ChestertonFriendship
№ 03
“If disease is beautiful, it is generally some one else’s disease.”
G.K. ChestertonFriendship
№ 04
“There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.”
G.K. ChestertonFaith
№ 05
“People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are.”
G.K. ChestertonHumility
№ 06
“The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.”
G.K. ChestertonCourage
№ 07
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
G.K. ChestertonLove
№ 08
“Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction; for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.”
G.K. ChestertonJustice
№ 09
“You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.”
G.K. ChestertonJustice
№ 10
“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
G.K. ChestertonWisdom
№ 11
“It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.”
G.K. ChestertonFaith
№ 12
“When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.”
G.K. ChestertonLife
№ 13
“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
G.K. ChestertonLove
№ 14
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
G.K. ChestertonLife
№ 15
“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”
G.K. ChestertonCreativity
№ 16
“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
G.K. ChestertonWisdom
№ 17
“If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”
G.K. ChestertonFaith
№ 18
“By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.”
G.K. ChestertonWisdom
№ 19
“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
G.K. ChestertonJustice
№ 20
“There are some desires that are not desirable.”
G.K. ChestertonWisdom
№ 21
“The word good has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.”
G.K. ChestertonPhilosophy
№ 22
“In prosperity, our friends know us. In adversity, we know our friends.”
G.K. ChestertonFriendship
№ 23
“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”
G.K. ChestertonFailure
№ 24
“The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.”
G.K. ChestertonFaith
№ 25
“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”
G.K. ChestertonJustice
№ 26
“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.”
G.K. ChestertonFailure
№ 27
“We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table.”
G.K. ChestertonFriendship
№ 28
“A man who thinks himself a chicken is to himself as ordinary as a chicken.”
G.K. ChestertonMindset
№ 29
“Complete self-confidence is not merely a sin; complete self-confidence is a weakness.”
G.K. ChestertonSelf-belief
№ 30
“When you choose anything, you reject everything else.”
G.K. ChestertonWisdom
№ 31
“Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.”
G.K. ChestertonFreedom
№ 32
“We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.”
G.K. ChestertonCourage