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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Gilbert K. Chesterton quotes

English Writer May 29, 1874 – June 14, 1936

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Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere."
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere."
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. Gilbert K. Chesterton
They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my childlike faith in practical politics. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Of all horrible religions the most horrible is the worship of..."
Of all horrible religions the most horrible is the worship of hte god within. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing,..."
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything. Gilbert K. Chesterton
The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Mr. Blatchford attacks Christianity because he is mad on one Christian virtue: the merely mystical and almost irrational virtue of charity. He has a strange idea that he will make it easier to forgive sins by saying that there are no sins to forgive. Mr. Blatchford is not only an early Christian, he is the only early Christian who really ought to have been eaten by lions. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man."
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "The blank page is God's way of letting us know how hard it is..."
The blank page is God's way of letting us know how hard it is to be God. Gilbert K. Chesterton
We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Many great religions, Pagan and Christian, have insisted on wine. Only one, I think, has insisted on Soap. You will find it in the New Testament attributed to the Pharisees. Gilbert K. Chesterton
I believe firmly in the value of all vulgar notions, especially of vulgar jokes. When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle and spiritual idea. Gilbert K. Chesterton
The pessimists believe that the cosmos is a clock that is running down; the progressives believe it is a clock that they themselves are winding up. But I happen to believe that the world is what we choose to make it, and that we are what we choose to make ourselves; and that our renascence or our ruin will alike, ultimately and equally, testify with a trumpet to our liberty.- The Illustrated London News, July 10, 1920 Issue. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Once abolish the God and the government becomes the God."
Once abolish the God and the government becomes the God. Gilbert K. Chesterton
If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it. Gilbert K. Chesterton

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