black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

G. K. Chesterton

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Cosmos Ego Stardom Understand
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Abolishment Believe Criticism God Government Truth
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Age Forget Gold Man
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
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Fight Love Yourself
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Grace Grant Gratitude
Lying 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. CHESTERTON

Enough Experience Lying Perfection
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Brain Fall Open Minded Stupidity Yourself
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
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Choice Deep Difficult Reality Right
There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Business Difference Ideal State System
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Happiness Marriage Struggle
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Build Country Foundation Religion
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Committee Myself Search See
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

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More G. K. Chesterton Quotes