Quotes from GK Chesterton
What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
- GK Chesterton
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
- GK Chesterton
There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.
- GK Chesterton
For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.
- GK Chesterton
All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.
- GK Chesterton
Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.
- GK Chesterton
Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.
- GK Chesterton
No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.
- GK Chesterton
Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.
- GK Chesterton
It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.
- GK Chesterton
Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.
- GK Chesterton
Only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticize the State. They alone can appeal to something more holy than the gods of the city.
- GK Chesterton