Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Worship

• The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the whole of himself, as he worships or gets married. A man ought to vote with his head and heart, his soul and stomach, his eye for faces and his ear for music; also (when sufficiently provoked) with his hands and feet. If he has ever seen a fine sunset, the crimson color of it should creep into his vote. The question is not so much whether only a minority of the electorate votes. The point is that only a minority of the voter votes.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sunset, Eye, Heart

• Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sacrifice, Animal, Worship

• The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Order, Greed

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2012). “The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton”, p.112, Ignatius Press

• The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it - because it is a fact.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Fear, Ideas

• I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But, if I did on some one particular night, there is one sense at least in which I know what I should not find there. I apprehend that I should not find the work abounding in strong encouragements to the worship of idols; that the praises of polytheism would not be loudly sung; that the character of Mohammed would not be subjected to anything resembling hatred and derision; and that the great modern doctrine of the unimportance of religion would not be needlessly emphasised.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Encouragement, Strong, Character

• No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Education, Teaching, Men

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

• When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Obscurity, Literature, Invisibility

• It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might have wavered in their allegiance under this oppression of a great personality. . . . But this was a kind of modern meanness to which Syme could not sink even in his extreme morbidity. Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not coward enough to admire it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Personality, Enemy

  "The Man Who Was Thursday". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Ch. VI : The Exposure, 1908.

• Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Country, Nature, Men

• Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Use, Worship, Should

• There is always in the healthy mind an obscure prompting that religion teaches us rather to dig than to climb; that if we could once understand the common clay of earth we should understand everything. Similarly, we have the sentiment that if we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse. This is the great truth which has always lain at the back of baby-worship, and which will support it to the end.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Baby, Stars, Children

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

• It has been left to the last Christians, or rather to the first Christians fully committed to blaspheming and denying Christianity, to invent a new kind of worship of Sex, which is not even a worship of Life. It has been left to the very latest Modernists to proclaim an erotic religion which at once exalts lust and forbids fertility . . . The new priests abolish the fatherhood and keep the feast - to themselves.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Sex, Erotic

• We are Christians and Catholics not because we worship a key, but because we have passed a door; and felt the wind that is the trumpet of liberty blow over the land of the living.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Blow, Keys

• It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that the world has lost its philosophy and even failed to invent a new religion.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophy, Artist, World

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