Quotes from GK Chesterton
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
- GK Chesterton
Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died.
- GK Chesterton
It is not greedy to enjoy a good dinner, any more than it is to enjoy a good concert. But I do think there is something greedy about trying to enjoy the dinner and the concert at the same time.
- GK Chesterton
He said he didn't very well understand how George was going to sleep any more than he did now, seeing that there were only twenty-four hours in each day.
- GK Chesterton
Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God.
- GK Chesterton
In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together.
- GK Chesterton
It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
- GK Chesterton
If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
- GK Chesterton
London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.
- GK Chesterton
They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind.
- GK Chesterton
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
- GK Chesterton
One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.
- GK Chesterton