Quotes from GK Chesterton
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
- GK Chesterton
The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
- GK Chesterton
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
- GK Chesterton
Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.
- GK Chesterton
The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.
- GK Chesterton
When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what?
- GK Chesterton
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
- GK Chesterton
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
- GK Chesterton
It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them.
- GK Chesterton
Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
- GK Chesterton
The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.
- GK Chesterton
It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
- GK Chesterton