Gilbert Keith Chesterton (G.K Chesterton) was born on May 29, 1874. He was famous for being a philosopher, writer and a Christian apologist (from the Greek word ἀπολογία, meaning to give a defiance of the Christian worldview). He converted from the Anglican church to Roman Catholicism.
Chesterton was a larger-than-life character; he would make his point with proverbs and allegories. He was a prolific writer, one of his famous characters being Father Brown, the priest detective.
Chesterton died on June 14 1936, of heart failure.
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“A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.”
“Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.”
“The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.”
“Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.”
“Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.”
“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”
“If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments”
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
“Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.”
“God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.”
“A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.”
“You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.”
“For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.”
“The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.”
“It is always the secure who are humble.”
“Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. “
“Almost everyone agrees the world is not the way it ought to be. It’s called the problem of evil.”
“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
“When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.”
“CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.”
“Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.”
“Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.”
“Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.”
“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
“Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.”