Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONComradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONCourage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONWe’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
GILBERT 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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOne may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONTruth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONTolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONIt is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOne must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere are some desires that are not desirable.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe test of happiness is gratitude.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONParadox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONPeople generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONAgainst a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONBut there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON