The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONParadox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOnly man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDo not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONTolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONModern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOne may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere are some desires that are not desirable.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONHope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONComradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONChastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONLiterature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
GILBERT 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
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON