Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Thoughts and images

Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it, you cannot look at anything else.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

Society is in decay, final or transitional when common sense really becomes uncommon.

A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.

You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.

Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.

Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.

The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried . . . not that it can't remake the world, but that it's difficult.

We're all in the same boat, and we're all seasick.

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.