Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Faith

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Inspirational, Success

• Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Faith, Religious

• A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Faith, Inspiration, Common Sense

• A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Faith, Moral, Sanity

• At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all appearance, gone to the dogs? But, in each of these five cases, it was the dog that died.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Faith, Christian, Dog

• Man is at his tallest when he bows.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Faith, Men, Bows

• Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

• The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Faith, Inspiration, Simple

• A man will not roll in the snow for a stream of tendency by which all things fulfill the law of their being. He will not go without food in the name of something, not ourselves, that makes for righteousness. He will do things like this, or pretty nearly like this, under quite a different impulse. He will do these things when he is in love.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

• Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

• The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic, of one man one house - this remains the real vision and magnet of mankind. The world may accept something more official and general, less human and intimate. But the world will be like a broken-hearted woman who makes a humdrum marriage because she may not make a happy one; Socialism may be the world's deliverance, but it is not the world's desire.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Faith, Real, Inspiration

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

• Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Faith, Believe, Inspiration

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

• It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To be at last in such secure innocence that one can juggle with the universe and the stars, to be so good that one can treat everything as a joke - that may be, perhaps, the real end and final holiday of human souls.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Faith, Stars, Real

  "All Things Considered". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1908.

• It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour, ought to be made by us all, in contemplating every panoramic change in the long Vision we call life... "It is good for us to be here - it is good for us to be here", repeating itself eternally.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Faith, Inspiration, Long

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