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
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Deep Desire Enough Philosophy
[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Inspirational Limitation Money Pay Society
The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Goodness Man Meaning Necessary Time Word
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Happiness Marriage Struggle
God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Deep God Religious Sun Yourself
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Boat Each Other Loyalty Terrible
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Choice Gratitude Life Yourself
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
G. K. CHESTERTON

Children Gratitude Ourselves Time
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.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Myself Religion Right Thinking Wrong
The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Believe End Himself Man Problem Worst
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Gratitude Thankful Thinking
CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Civilization Communication Judgement Speed
We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Earth Exception Nature Wonder
When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Afraid Himself Man Woman
Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Audience People Right Wrong

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