Quotes from GK Chesterton
There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast, ' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.
- GK Chesterton
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments.
- GK Chesterton
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
- GK Chesterton
Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.
- GK Chesterton
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
- GK Chesterton
One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.
- GK Chesterton
Theology is only thought applied to religion.
- GK Chesterton
In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.
- GK Chesterton
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.
- GK Chesterton
The crux and crisis is that man found it natural to worship, even natural to worship unnatural things
- GK Chesterton
Posting a letter and getting married sic are among the few things left that are entirely romantic; for to be entirely romantic, a thing must be irrevocable.
- GK Chesterton
We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.
- GK Chesterton