We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
G. K. CHESTERTONWe are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
G. K. CHESTERTONBut the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
G. K. CHESTERTONI don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
G. K. CHESTERTONArt, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
G. K. CHESTERTONThere’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
G. K. CHESTERTONAngels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
G. K. CHESTERTONGod is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
G. K. CHESTERTONImpartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
G. K. CHESTERTONReason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
G. K. CHESTERTONFor when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
G. K. CHESTERTON