Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes

Those who speak against the family do not know what they do, because they do not know what they undo.

The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

Maturity makes a man more of a spectator than an author of social life.

The church asks us to take off our hats when entering, not our heads.

The place where children are born and men die, where freedom and love flourish, is not an office, a store, or a factory. There I see the importance of the family.

Crazy is not the one who has lost their reason, but the one who has lost everything, everything, except for reason.

As children, we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why aren't we grateful to God for filling our stockings with our feet?

The purpose of having an open mind, like that of an open mouth, is to fill it with something valuable.

When you stop believing in God, you start believing in anything.

The idea that does not try to become a word is a bad idea, and the word that does not try to become an action is a bad word.

As far as we have lost belief, we have lost reason. Both have the same authoritative and primary condition. Both constitute methods of proof that, in turn, do not admit to being proven. And in the act of annihilating the idea of divine authority, we undermine that human authority from which we cannot even dispense to say that two and two are four.