When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
-
-
The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
The test of happiness is gratitude.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
I 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 -
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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 society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
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. CHESTERTON