A stiff apology is a second insult… The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

G. K. Chesterton (Writer, 1874 – 1936)

The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.

G. K. Chesterton (Writer, 1874 – 1936)

There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

G. K. Chesterton (Writer, 1874 – 1936)

The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.

G. K. Chesterton (Writer, 1874 – 1936)

Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

G. K. Chesterton (Writer, 1874 – 1936)

All men matter. You matter. I matter. It’s the hardest thing in theology to believe.

G. K. Chesterton (Writer, 1874 – 1936)

If the world grows to worldly, it can be rebuked by the Church; but if the Church grows to worldly, it cannot be adequately rebuked for worldlyness by the world.

G. K. Chesterton (Writer, 1874 – 1936)

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

G. K. Chesterton (Writer, 1874 – 1936)

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

G. K. Chesterton (Writer, 1874 – 1936)

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

G. K. Chesterton (Writer, 1874 – 1936)