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)

It is always the secure who are humble.

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

Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.

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

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)