Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Devil

• Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
  Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity.
  He who has the faith has the fun.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fun, Angel, Devil

• Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spiritual, War, Men

• The Devil's walking parody; On all four-footed things.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Horse, Devil, Four

  1900 'The Donkey'.

• "Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Father, Heart, Men

  "The Innocence of Father Brown". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1911.

• I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Devil, Satan

• Suppose, my dear Chadd, suppose it is we who are the idiots because we are not afraid of devils in the dark?

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Dark, Devil, Idiot

• If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Thinking, Devil, Looks

  "The Purple Wig". Book by G. K. Chesterton, November 26, 2012.

• The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Play, Devil, Thanks

• When fishes flew and forests walked
  And figs grew upon thorn,
  Some moment when the moon was blood
  Then surely I was born.
  With monstrous head and sickening cry
  And ears like errant wings,
  The devil's walking parody
  On all four-footed things.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Moon, Blood, Wings

  1900 'The Donkey'.

• Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account, not in the least of a person with his hair parted in the middle or his hands clasped in appeal, but of an extraordinary being with lips of thunder and acts of lurid decision, flinging down tables, casting out devils, passing with the wild secrecy of the wind from mountain isolation to a sort of dreadful demagogy; a being who often acted like an angry god — and always like a god.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Book, Hair, Hands

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

• The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Devil, Saint

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

• Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher; it is casting out a devil.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Devil, Casting, Philosopher

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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