Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes about Soul

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We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Soul, Pleasure, Worthy

For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mean, Point Break, Soul

Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Thinking, Self, Soul

"Orthodoxy". Book by G. K. Chesterton, Chapter VI. "The Paradoxes of Christianity", 1908.

As to the doubt of the soul I discover it to be false: a mood not a conclusion. My conclusion is the Faith. Corporate, organized, a personality, teaching. A thing, not a theory. It.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Teaching, Personality, Soul

We are talking about an artist; and for the enjoyment of the artist the mask must be to some extent moulded on the face. What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him; he can only make his effects out of some of the materials of his soul.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Art, Soul, Faces

"The Dagger with Wings". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1926.

All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Soul, Damnation, States

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

It is unpardonable conceit not to laugh at your own jokes. Joking is undignified; that is why it is so good for one's soul. Do not fancy you can be a detached wit and avoid being a buffoon; you cannot. If you are the Court Jester you must be the Court Fool.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Laughing, Soul, Fancy

The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell . . .

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Spiritual, Men, Soul

Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.194, Simon and Schuster