Quotes about Chesterton

It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels in arts while they were rebels in arms.

Chesterton said once that there is only one unanswerable argument against Christianity: Christians. And

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

In truth the Church is too unique to prove herself unique. For most popular and easy proof is by parallel; and here there is no parallel.

When one of England's finest writers, G. K. Chesterton, spoke of "the furious love of God," he was referencing the enormous vitality and strength of the God of Jesus seeking union with us.

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton and Dostoyevsky have lived for a hundred years and are just as powerful today. Their words have changed me just as much as the people I actually met.

We can't turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.