Quotes from GK Chesterton
Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
- GK Chesterton
Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.
- GK Chesterton
All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.
- GK Chesterton
The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.
- GK Chesterton
I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice.
- GK Chesterton
We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them.
- GK Chesterton
'As you have made your bed, so you must lie on it'; which again is simply a lie. If I have made my bed uncomfortable, please God I will make it again.
- GK Chesterton
If Christianity should happen to be true - that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe - then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything.
- GK Chesterton
How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.
- GK Chesterton
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
- GK Chesterton
The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.
- GK Chesterton
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
- GK Chesterton