The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
G. K. CHESTERTONFor when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
G. K. CHESTERTONOne may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
G. K. CHESTERTONPassion makes every detail important.
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. CHESTERTONThere are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
G. K. CHESTERTONAgnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
G. K. CHESTERTONIt isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
G. K. CHESTERTONTolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
G. K. CHESTERTONMoral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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 problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
G. K. CHESTERTON