Quotes from GK Chesterton
The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.
- GK Chesterton
If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.
- GK Chesterton
People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
- GK Chesterton
No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be an overflow into the lives of others.
- GK Chesterton
True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it.
- GK Chesterton
The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
- GK Chesterton
It matters very little whether a man is discontented in the name of pessimism or progress, if his discontent does in fact paralyse his power of appreciating what he has got.
- GK Chesterton
There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
- GK Chesterton
The true object of human life is play.
- GK Chesterton
We must be clear about what we want to paint. This adds a further principle to our previous list of principles. We have said we must be fond of this world, even in order to change it.
- GK Chesterton
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
- GK Chesterton
There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.
- GK Chesterton