G. K. Chesterton Quotes

We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.

O 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.

Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.

A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.