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
believe men believe-in-god
When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything
missing facts links
The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
strong men great-men
A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
children destiny men
The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
real truism real-courage
There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.
men normal ordinary
The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal itself is an abnormality.
pride thunder
Take not thy thunder from us, but take away our pride.
cosmos would-be hammers
How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.
fashion months bears
The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.
gold sometimes silver
Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold ... that is, in large quantities.
strong children ideas
Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms [the child] to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless enemies have enemies in the knights of God, that there is something in the universe more mystical than darkness, and stronger than strong fear.
issues principles moral
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
defeated disadvantages conqueror
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.
people impossible socialism
People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.