black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

G. K. Chesterton

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Interest Mindset People
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Destruction Society Transition
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
G. K. CHESTERTON

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

Affair Love Religion Theory
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
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
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
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Fight Love Yourself
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Death Flow Live Stream Water
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Hope Seem
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Age Forget Gold Man
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Problem See Solution Yourself
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.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Establishment Myself Religion Rule Wild
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Heart Mindset Object Open
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
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Afraid Corruption Coward Devil Fake God Spiritual Stupidity
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Determination Lose Mindset Success Thinking Yourself
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Art Draw Moral Sketch
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Fear God Man Scare Thinking
Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Chance Compliment God Hell Human
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Brain Fall Open Minded Stupidity Yourself
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Enough Place Removal Yourself
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
I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
G. K. CHESTERTON

Action God Knowledge Myself Practice
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Adventure Right Wrong
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Man Philosophy Secret Understand

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More G. K. Chesterton Quotes