Quotes from GK Chesterton
Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate.
- GK Chesterton
When you with velvets mantled o'er, Defy December's tempests frore, Oh! spare one garment from your store, To clothe the poor at Christmas.
- GK Chesterton
The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
- GK Chesterton
Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.
- GK Chesterton
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
- GK Chesterton
Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.
- GK Chesterton
That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.
- GK Chesterton
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
- GK Chesterton
I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.
- GK Chesterton
Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.
- GK Chesterton
As to the doubt of the soul I discover it to be false: a mood not a conclusion. My conclusion is the Faith. Corporate, organized, a personality, teaching. A thing, not a theory. It.
- GK Chesterton
Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.
- GK Chesterton