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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Life, Hate, Passion

The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Believe, Men, Problem

It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Knowledge, Complaining, Absurd
"St. Thomas Aquinas". Book by G.K. Chesterton, 1933.

Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Jesus, Fearless, Church

A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Faith, Inspiration, Common Sense

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Business, Mistake, Political
"The Illustrated London News" Magazine, 1924.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Believe, People, Tolerance

Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Fall, Brain, Open Minded

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
Love, Inspirational, Success

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Inspirational, Looks, Sun

A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Faith, Moral, Sanity

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Hope, Children, Dragons

You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Problem, Solutions, Ifs

Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Issues, Principles, Moral

The test of happiness is gratitude.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Christian, Gratitude, Tests

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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Way, Revolution, Christianity

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Husband, Ideas, Feminism

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Silence, Needs, Censorship

Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Obvious Things, Civilization, Decay

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Life, Happiness, Smart

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Christian, Wisdom, Religious
"Points of friction". Book by Agnes Repplier, "Consolations of the Conservative", 1920.

Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Long, Firsts, Enough

Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Doe, Moral, Sanity

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gratitude, Live Life, Grateful

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Believe, Russia, Government
"Christendom in Dublin". Book by G. K. Chesterton, Ch. III: Very Christian Democracy., 1932.

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