C G Chesterton Quotes

#1. G. K. Chesterton: When Man ceases to worship God he does not worship nothing but worships everything.

Pope Francis

#2. If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to pass into Heaven (if I want to) as a friend of G.K.C.'s. Bless you.

H.G.Wells

#3. G. K. Chesterton once said that to be thankful is the highest form of thought and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. Thanklessness, then,must be the lowest form of thought, and ingratitude is discontentment, bankrupted of wonder.

Ravi Zacharias

#4. G.K. Chesterton said (in a somewhat different context), "If you believe in nothing, you'll believe in anything." That

Michael Crichton

#5. Gilbert Keith Chesterton (that fabulously large Catholic writer) overheard someone making fun of Milton (it didn't matter that the insults were all true).

N.D. Wilson

#6. You start reading C.S. Lewis, then you're reading G.K. Chesterton, then you're a Catholic.

Ross Douthat

#7. For the critics who think Chesterton frivolous or 'paradoxical' I have to work hard to feel even pity; sympathy is out of the question.

C.S. Lewis

#8. Hope means hoping when things are hopeless or it is no virtue at all. It is only when things are hopeless that hope begins to be a strength (G. K. Chesterton). Hope is an undefeated forward look.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#9. The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. - G. K. CHESTERTON

Clare De Graaf

#10. G. K. Chesterton once said, 'Fairy tales are more than true, not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.'" She

Claire Stibbe

#11. In reading Chesterton I was undermining my own most dearly held prejudices.

Joseph Pearce

#12. After one of the lectures in Philadelphia, a woman asked Chesterton what made women talk so much, to which he replied, briefly, 'God, Madam'.

Ian T. Ker

#13. Men are men, but Man is a woman. - Chesterton

John Crowley

#14. G. K. Chesterton compared fantastic fiction to going on holiday - that the importance of your holiday is the moment you return, and you see the place you live through fresh eyes.

Neil Gaiman

#15. Somewhere Chesterton writes
I think it is Chesterton
that you cannot reason a man from a position that reason didn't deliver him to.

Alec Wilkinson

#16. When a newspaper posed the question, "What's Wrong with the World?" the Catholic thinker G. K. Chesterton reputedly wrote a brief letter in response: "Dear Sirs: I am. Sincerely Yours, G. K. Chesterton." That is the attitude of someone who has grasped the message of Jesus.

Timothy Keller

#17. Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

Neil Gaiman