The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
-GK Chesterton
The Christian ideal has not been tried a…
An adventure is only an inconvenience ri…
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
-GK Chesterton
Bigotry may be roughly defined as the an…
Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.
-GK Chesterton
It isn’t that they can’t see the solut…
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution, it is that they cannot see the problem.
-GK Chesterton
The function of the imagination is not t…
The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
-GK Chesterton
A dead thing can go with the stream, but…
A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
-GK Chesterton
Customs are generally unselfish. Habits …
Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.
-GK Chesterton
To have a right to do a thing is not at …
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
-GK Chesterton
How quickly revolutions grow old; and, w…
How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.
-GK Chesterton
Once abolish the God, and the government…
Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God.
-GK Chesterton
Self-denial is the test and definition o…
Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.
-GK Chesterton
Love means loving the unlovable – or it …
Love means loving the unlovable – or it is no virtue at all.
-GK Chesterton
Marriage is a duel to the death which no…
Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.
-GK Chesterton
There are those who hate Christianity an…
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
-GK Chesterton
These are the days when the Christian is…
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
-GK Chesterton
Men do not differ much about what things…
Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.
-GK Chesterton
It’s not that we don’t have enough sco…
It’s not that we don’t have enough scoundrels to curse; it’s that we don’t have enough good men to curse them.
-GK Chesterton
Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive …
Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.
-GK Chesterton
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