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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Atheism Heaven Nihilism
Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Dog Funny Spiritual
Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Eye Spring Story Sunset
I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Church Need Thinking
The 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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Entirely Men School Stake
Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Half Literature Mean
A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Children Justice Love
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Country Earth Rich Scum
At 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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Art Brain Spiritual
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Christianity Morality Religion
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Funny Inspirational Travel
A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Crow Duality Thorn
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Doubtful Men Pilot
All 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. CHESTERTON

Men Secret Sublime
The 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. CHESTERTON

Country People Regard Riddle
It 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. CHESTERTON

Men Running Thinking