Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONComradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONAll science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONHope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONParadox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONCatholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONWhen it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONModern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONI don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONVery few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOne may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONHope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON