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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Catholic, Riddle
"The Book of Job". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1907.

I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Fighting, Men, Happy Marriage
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love, Fighting, Fighting On

I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Practice, Religion, May

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Encouragement, Clever, Failure

When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that Islam itself was only an aggressive raid against the old and ordered civilization in these parts. I do not say it in mere hostility to the religion of Mahomet; I am fully conscious of many values and virtues in it; but certainly it was Islam that was the invasion and Christendom that was the thing invaded.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Civilization, People, Islam

God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Goodness, Symbols

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Support, Intelligence, Intuition

But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun.; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic monotony that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Strong, Morning, Father
"Orthodoxy". Book by G. K. Chesterton (chapter IV), 1908.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love, Faith, Religious

Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Believe, Tolerance, Virtue

Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Feminist, Female, Characteristics

There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Integrity, Apology, Men

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
I Hate You, Ignorance, People

We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Law, People, Needs

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy, Morality, Action
"A short history of England". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1917.

Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Happiness, Being Happy, Thankful
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Fiction, Literature, World
"On the Cryptic and the Elliptic", All Things Considered, 1908.

I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Believe, Found, Preaching

It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Media, World, News

All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Believe, Men, Matter

No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Break, Ten

All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Ordinary, Knows

A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Long, Amusement, Amused

The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Christian, Humanity, Truth Is

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