Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Humility

• Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Mean, Humility

• It is always the secure who are humble.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Humble, Kids, Humility

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

• The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together. Their top-heavy dignity is more touching than any humility; their solemnity gives us more hope for all things than a thousand carnivals of optimism; their large and lustrous eyes seem to hold all the stars in their astonishment; their fascinating absence of nose seems to give to us the most perfect hint of the humour that awaits us in the kingdom of heaven.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Stars, Children, Humorous

  "The Defendant". Book by G. K. Chesterton, A Defence of Baby-Worship, 1901.

• What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which made him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hard Work, Humility, Men

• So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I am especially proud of those parts of it that are most commonly called superstition. I am proud of being fettered by antiquated dogmas and enslaved by dead creeds (as my journalistic friends repeat with so much pertinacity), for I know very well that it is the heretical creeds that are dead, and that it is only the reasonable dogma that lives long enough to be called antiquated.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Humility, Men, Long

• Humility is the mother of giants.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mother, Humility, Giants

  "The Hammer of God". Short story by G. K. Chesterton, December 1910.

• It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Humility, Pride, Impossible

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

• Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are - of immeasurable stature.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Humility, Size

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

• Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Humility, Pride, Feet

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Ballad Of The White Horse”

• We all know that the 'divine glory of the ego' is socially a great nuisance; we all do actually value our friends for modesty, freshness, and simplicity of heart. Whatever may be the reason, we all do warmly respect humility - in other people.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Heart, Humility, People

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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