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)

When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that Islam itself was only an aggressive raid against the old and ordered civilization in these parts. I do not say it in mere hostility to the religion of Mahomet; I am fully conscious of many values and virtues in it; but certainly it was Islam that was the invasion and Christendom that was the thing invaded.

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