Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes about Friendship

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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Love, Inspirational, Friendship

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Funny, Friendship, God

Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it is a clear difference. A boundary unites. Many a magnanimous Moslem and chivalrous Crusader must have been nearer to each other, because they were both dogmatists, than any two agnostics. "I say God is One," and "I say God is One but also Three," that is the beginning of a good quarrelsome, manly friendship.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Friendship, Men, Two

Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

. . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Friendship, Two, Individuality

Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Friendship, Different, Different Things

Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Friendship, Men, Soul

These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are the things that men have loved; nor is it necessary to ask men to hate their loves in order to love one another. Just as two grocers are most likely to be reconciled when they remember for a moment that they are two fathers, so two nationals are most likely to be reconciled when they remember (if only for a moment) that they are two patriots.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Friendship, Father, Hate