Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes - Page 5

• We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Loyalty

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

  68 Copy quote

• A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Ideas, Catholic, May

  25 Copy quote

• Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Reality, Choices, Dignity

  16 Copy quote

• I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Believe, Found, Preaching

  11 Copy quote

• We're all in the same boat, and we're all seasick.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Boat

  14 Copy quote

• The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  School, Men, Doe

  31 Copy quote

• A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Support, Intelligence, Intuition

  19 Copy quote

• 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

  15 Copy quote

• A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Long, Amusement, Amused

  15 Copy quote

• The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Food, Sarcasm

  "Alarms And Discursions". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1910.

  35 Copy quote

• One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, World, Way

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

  23 Copy quote

• Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Latin, Greek, Ignorant

  30 Copy quote

• I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific when it is really nothing but a sort of new religion and an uncommonly nasty one. When people talked about the fall of man, they knew they were talking about a mystery, a thing they didn't understand. Now they talk about the survival of the fittest: they think they do understand it, whereas they have not merely no notion, they have an elaborately false notion of what the words mean.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophy, Fall, Mean

  7 Copy quote

• Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hope, Mean, Unbelievable Things

  69 Copy quote

• I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Believe, Evil

  29 Copy quote

• The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  53 Copy quote

• It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Math, Statistics

  Scandal of Father Brown (1935) "Point of a Pin"

  34 Copy quote

• We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Moving, Church

  5 Copy quote

• The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Pleasure, Crisis

  10 Copy quote

• To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Money, Clever

  Wisdom of Father Brown (1914) "Paradise of Thieves"

  30 Copy quote

• When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Believe, Men, Believe In God

  15 Copy quote

• humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Doors, Seriousness, Handle

  11 Copy quote

• I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Life, Presence Of Mind

  21 Copy quote

• There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Differences, Listening, Listening And Hearing

  22 Copy quote

• It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Arguing, Apologetic

  12 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

C. S. Lewis

Hilaire Belloc

Arthur Conan Doyle

Charles Dickens

Agatha Christie

Dale Ahlquist

George MacDonald

J. R. R. Tolkien