Gilbert Keith Chesterton – select quotes
Carlyle said that men were mostly fools. Christianity, with its surer and more reverent realism, says that they are all fools. This doctrine is sometimes called the doctrine of original sin. It may also be described as the doctrine of the equality of man.
~ in Heretics
“My country right or wrong” is like saying, “My mother, drunk or sober.”
~ in The Defendant
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly understood. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly understood.
I am incurably convinced that the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult, and left untried.
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here’s a few more Chesterton quotes
“Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God.” – Christendom in Dublin, 1933
“America is the only country ever founded on a creed.” – What I Saw In America, 1922
“The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.” – Chapter 19, What I Saw In America, 1922
His’ Everlasting Man’ is a very well written piece dealing with the issue of the religion of Evolution. The premise is that only Man knows beauty and can generate Art…
John, thanks for the quotes.