Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
G. K. CHESTERTONAll men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
-
-
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
G. K. CHESTERTON -
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
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 -
Passion makes every detail important.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
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 -
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 -
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
G. K. CHESTERTON