The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
G. K. CHESTERTONFairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
G. K. CHESTERTONHell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
G. K. CHESTERTONAt the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
G. K. CHESTERTONAgnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
G. K. CHESTERTONIt is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
G. K. CHESTERTONAmerica is the only country ever founded on a creed.
G. K. CHESTERTONO God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
G. K. CHESTERTONExactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
G. K. CHESTERTONHope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
G. K. CHESTERTONWhen belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
G. K. CHESTERTONWe 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. CHESTERTONIt is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
G. K. CHESTERTON