black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

G. K. Chesterton

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Affair Love Religion Theory
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Destruction Silence Tolerance
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Difference Exception Movement Philosophy Science
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Mystery Poet Silence Subject
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Believe People Tolerance Virtue
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Around Death Democracy Tradition Vote Walk
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Difficult Failure Religious Try
Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Discipline Fear Happiness Promise Trouble Weird
The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Battle Divine Fight God Lose Oneself Perfection
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Adventure Right Wrong
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Avoid Goodness Requirement Virtue Wife Woman Yourself
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Determination Lose Mindset Success Thinking Yourself
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Beginning Hope Reason
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Believe People Tolerance Virtue
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Day Expectation Praise Way

A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More G. K. Chesterton Quotes