Nothing is certain by uncertainty. 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 success inspirational love Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble. Gilbert K. Chesterton fearless church jesus God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else. Gilbert K. Chesterton sun inspirational looks 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 problem men believe You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem. Gilbert K. Chesterton solutions problem ifs 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 christian running order 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 garden night heaven Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place. Gilbert K. Chesterton enough long firsts 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 absurd complaining knowledge Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything. Gilbert K. Chesterton tolerance believe people 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 leaving educational people Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out. Gilbert K. Chesterton open-minded brain fall 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 hope giving ideas A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great. Gilbert K. Chesterton great-person life-and-love really-great The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man. Gilbert K. Chesterton riddle catholic men 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 church needs thinking The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it. Gilbert K. Chesterton missing funny travel 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 tradition fashion Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. Gilbert K. Chesterton wisdom religious christian
