It is always the secure who are humble.
G. K. CHESTERTONWhen people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
-
-
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
Passion makes every detail important.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
G. K. CHESTERTON