Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Religion

• The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Running, Order

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Faith, Religious

• Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Wisdom, Religious

  "Points of friction". Book by Agnes Repplier, "Consolations of the Conservative", 1920.

• If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  God, Atheist, Christian Inspirational

  "Where All Roads Lead" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1922.

• Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Religious, Mean, Practice

• If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Religion, Thousand

• There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hate, If There Is A God, Christian Inspirational

• The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Family, Christian, Prayer

• A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophy, Moon, Men

• One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Moon, Religion, Sun

• Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Evil, Catholic

  "The Illustrated London News" Magazine, October 23, 1909.

• I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Practice, Religion, May

• These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Religion, Morality

  "The Illustrated London News" Magazine, August 11, 1928.

• It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Religion, Tests, Childlike Faith

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

• For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

• People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  People, Mad, Religion

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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