“ Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate. G. K. Chesterton
“ There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner. G. K. Chesterton
“ 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. If you are merely a sceptic, you must sooner or later ask yourself the questi… G. K. Chesterton
“ The Bible tells us to love our neighbors and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people. G. K. Chesterton
“ When people cease to believe in God they don't believe in nothing they believe in anything. G. K. Chesterton
“ The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited but was d… G. K. Chesterton
“ The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, The Odyssey because all life is a journey, The Book of Job because all life is a riddle. G. K. Chesterton
“ The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them. G. K. Chesterton
“ He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe. G. K. Chesterton
“ That a good man may have his back to the wall is no more than we knew already, but that God could have His back to the wall is a boast for all insurgents forever. Christianity is the only religion on… G. K. Chesterton
“ Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the tr… G. K. Chesterton
“ I seem to remember only centuries of heroic war, in which you were always heroes--epic on epic, Iliad on Iliad, and you always brothers in arms. Whether it was but recently (for time is nothing), or a… G. K. Chesterton
“ I had thought of calling the next sort of superficial people the Idealists; but I think this implies a humility towards impersonal good they hardly show; so I call them the Autocrats. They are those w… G. K. Chesterton
“ True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it. G. K. Chesterton
“ But though the essential of the woman's task is universality, this does not, of course, prevent her from having one or two severe though largely wholesome prejudices. She has, on the whole, been more… G. K. Chesterton
