Let us not decide what is good, but let it be considered good not to decide it. Gilbert K. Chesterton More Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton More Quotes From Gilbert K. Chesterton To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. Gilbert K. Chesterton successinspirationallove Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble. Gilbert K. Chesterton fearlesschurchjesus God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else. Gilbert K. Chesterton suninspirationallooks The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything. Gilbert K. Chesterton problemmenbelieve You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem. Gilbert K. Chesterton solutionsproblemifs The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild. Gilbert K. Chesterton christianrunningorder On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but of the dawn. Gilbert K. Chesterton gardennightheaven Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place. Gilbert K. Chesterton enoughlongfirsts It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything. Gilbert K. Chesterton absurdcomplainingknowledge Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything. Gilbert K. Chesterton tolerancebelievepeople 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. Gilbert K. Chesterton leavingeducationalpeople Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out. Gilbert K. Chesterton open-mindedbrainfall Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth. Gilbert K. Chesterton errors There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner. Gilbert K. Chesterton hopegivingideas A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great. Gilbert K. Chesterton great-personlife-and-lovereally-great The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man. Gilbert K. Chesterton riddlecatholicmen I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right Gilbert K. Chesterton churchneedsthinking The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it. Gilbert K. Chesterton missingfunnytravel Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion. Gilbert K. Chesterton traditionfashion Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. Gilbert K. Chesterton wisdomreligiouschristian
