Quotes from G.K. Chesterton

no life of faith can be lived privately. There must be an overflow into the lives of others.

The true soldier fights

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose, new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never existed before, it is quite certain that he will never exist afterward.

The issue is now quite clear. It is between light and darkness and every one must choose his side.

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the play and the opera, And grace before the concert and pantomime, And grace before I open a book, And grace before sketching, painting, Swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing; And grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

I suppose you can guess the whole story now? After all, it's a primitive story. A man had two enemies. He was a wise man. And so he discovered that two enemies are better than one.

Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem".

It is always the secure who are humble.

...chaos of color, like a shattered rainbow...

Every man has forgotten who he is. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

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

That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.

As to the doubt of the soul I discover it to be false: a mood not a conclusion. My conclusion is the Faith. Corporate, organized, a personality, teaching. A thing, not a theory. It.

Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.