G.K. Chesterton Quotes*

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

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

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

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

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

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

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

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

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