Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Belief

• When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what?

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Names, Heaven, Belief

• The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the convent and the pirate-galley, the night-club and the lethal chamber, has been mysticism - the belief that logic is misleading, and that things are not what they seem.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Night, Men, Race

  "Tolstoy". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

• Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If any one doubts this, let him sit down seriously and try to think blasphemous thoughts about Thor.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophical, Thinking, Doubt

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Believe, Evil

• The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Believe, Men, World

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.244, Simon and Schuster

• The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Military, Believe, Army

  Orthodoxy (1908) ch. 2

• Religious and philosophical beliefs are, indeed, as dangerous as fire, and nothing can take from them that beauty of danger. But there is only one way of really guarding ourselves against the excessive danger of them, and that is to be steeped in philosophy and soaked in religion.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Religious, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

• The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Belief, Torture, Martyr

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