Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

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

The test of happiness is gratitude.

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

Tolerance is the virtue of those who don’t believe anything.

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

God is not a symbol of goodness;
goodness is a symbol of God

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

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.

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

Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.

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

A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.

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

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

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

Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.

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

I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.

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