Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG, better known as G. K. Chesterton, was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. Chesterton is often referred to as the "prince of paradox." Time magazine has observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out."...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth29 May 1874
nature adversity mountain-peaks
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
school men doe
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.
men trying looks
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
men religion thousand
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
god atheist christian-inspirational
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
gratitude live-life grateful
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
humble kids humility
It is always the secure who are humble.
believe government russia
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticize the government. Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God. That fact is written all across human history; but it is written most plainly across the recent history of Russia; which was created by Lenin. There the government is the God, and all the more the God, because it proclaims aloud in accents of thunder ... one essential commandment, Thou shalt have no other gods but Me.
wall sunset divorce
The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wall-paper, he gets a divorce.
christmas gratitude taken
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
mother mother-nature christianity
The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
christian orthodoxy sin
Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.
political politician terrible
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
educational people leaving
The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves.