Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONHope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere are some desires that are not desirable.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONWhen it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONIt’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONWhen giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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. CHESTERTONA society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONWe’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONAgainst a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONModern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONComradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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. 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. CHESTERTONThere are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON