G.K. Chesterton

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

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

Gratitude • Life • Mindfulness

When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

Choice • Regret

We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table.

We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table.

Education • Intelligence • Skepticism

If disease is beautiful, it is generally some one else’s disease.

If disease is beautiful, it is generally some one else’s disease.

Beauty • Health

Complete self-confidence is not merely a sin; complete self-confidence is a weakness.

Complete self-confidence is not merely a sin; complete self-confidence is a weakness.

Confidence • Sin • Weakness

A man who thinks himself a chicken is to himself as ordinary as a chicken.

A man who thinks himself a chicken is to himself as ordinary as a chicken.

Health • Perception

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Actions • Beliefs • Fate

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

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.

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.

Creation • Evolution • Philosophy

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Faith • Forgiveness • Hope

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Danger • Education • Ignorance

There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

Christianity • Love • Religion

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.

Fear • God • Religion

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

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

Philosophy • Religion • Spirituality

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

Philosophy • Reason

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

Bible • Enemies • Love

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

Art • Morality

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

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

Adversity • Life • Perseverance

In prosperity, our friends know us. In adversity, we know our friends.

In prosperity, our friends know us. In adversity, we know our friends.

Adversity • Friendship • Prosperity

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.

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.

Humor • Language • Morality