The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONPeople talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONVery few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONIt’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThese are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONScience must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONIt is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOriginal sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONAll government is an ugly necessity.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOne elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONModern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOne must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONBut 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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON