GK CHESTERTON QUOTES GOD

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”

“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.”

“Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.”

“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.”

“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”

“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”

“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”

“The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”

“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”

“The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.”

“Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.”

“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” MISSING MY DEAD BEST FRIEND QUOTES

“Just going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.”

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

“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”

“As I have said a thousand times, my own philosophy is the one thing I am completely sure of.”

“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.”

“When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing — they believe in anything.”

“Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump. You may be freeing him from being a camel.”

“It is not bigotry to be certain we are right. But it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.”

“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”

“Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.”