Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
G. K. CHESTERTONMarriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
G. K. CHESTERTONYou cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
G. K. CHESTERTONThese are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
G. K. CHESTERTONHell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
G. K. CHESTERTONNothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
G. K. CHESTERTONDemocracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G. K. CHESTERTONLying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
G. K. CHESTERTONThere are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
G. K. CHESTERTONAmerica is the only country ever founded on a creed.
G. K. CHESTERTONWe are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe 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. CHESTERTONAll men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
G. K. CHESTERTON