Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. Gilbert K. Chesterton on experience
Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young. Gilbert K. Chesterton on experience
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. Gilbert K. Chesterton on faith
The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself. Gilbert K. Chesterton on family
The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself. Gilbert K. Chesterton on freedom
It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified. Gilbert K. Chesterton on funny
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? Gilbert K. Chesterton on god
We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour. Gilbert K. Chesterton on god
Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head. Gilbert K. Chesterton on god
White... is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. Gilbert K. Chesterton on god
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God. Gilbert K. Chesterton on god
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. Gilbert K. Chesterton on god
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man. Gilbert K. Chesterton on good
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. Gilbert K. Chesterton on good
We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners. Gilbert K. Chesterton on good
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. Gilbert K. Chesterton on good
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. Gilbert K. Chesterton on government
One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak. Gilbert K. Chesterton on great
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. Gilbert K. Chesterton on great
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. Gilbert K. Chesterton on great