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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Gilbert K. Chesterton quotes

English Writer May 29, 1874 – June 14, 1936

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St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great..."
Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us..."
For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy. Gilbert K. Chesterton
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. Gilbert K. Chesterton
A man must love a thing very much if he practices it without any hope of fame or money, but even practice it without any hope of doing it well. Such a man must love the toils of the work more than any other man can love the rewards of it. Gilbert K. Chesterton
They are constantly colonists and emigrants ; they have the name of being at home in every country. But they are in exile in their own country. They are torn between love of home and love of something else; of which the sea may be the explanation or may be only the symbol. It is also found in a nameless nursery rhyme which is the finest line in English literature and the dumb refrain of all English poems, 'Over the hills and far away. Gilbert K. Chesterton
We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of the fanatic who wrecks this world out of hatred of the other? He sacrifices the very existence of humanity to the non-existence of God. He offers his victims not to the altar, but merely to assert the idleness of the altar and the emptiness of the throne. He is ready to ruin even that primary ethic by which all things live, for his strange and eternal vengeance upon some one... Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our..."
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it. Gilbert K. Chesterton
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even practices it with any hope of doing it well. Gilbert K. Chesterton
The wise man will follow a star, low and large and fierce in the heavens, but the nearer he comes to it the smaller and smaller it will grow, till he finds it the humble lantern over some little inn or stable. Not till we know the high things shall we know how lovely they are. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "... And the Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God."
... And the Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front..."
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him. Gilbert K. Chesterton
But the truth is that there is no more conscious inconsistency between the humility of a Christian and the rapacity of a Christian than there is between the humility of a lover and the rapacity of a lover. The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy. There never was a man in love who did not declare that, if he strained every nerve to breaking, he was going to have his desire. And there never was a man... Gilbert K. Chesterton
What we need is not the cold acceptance of the world as a compromise, but some way in which we can heartily hate and heartily love it. We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce asurly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent Gilbert K. Chesterton

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