It 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. CHESTERTONWhen giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
-
-
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. CHESTERTON -
There are some desires that are not desirable.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
But 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. CHESTERTON -
The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
A 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. CHESTERTON -
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON