Quotes from GK Chesterton
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
- GK Chesterton
The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
- GK Chesterton
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
- GK Chesterton
In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.
- GK Chesterton
Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.
- GK Chesterton
The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.
- GK Chesterton
[Paradox is] truth standing on its head to gain attention.
- GK Chesterton
If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.
- GK Chesterton
In truth the Church is too unique to prove herself unique. For most popular and easy proof is by parallel; and here there is no parallel.
- GK Chesterton
Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.
- GK Chesterton
Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?
- GK Chesterton
It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
- GK Chesterton