Top 25 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton of 1328 - Page 2

The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated,

The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Educational, People, Leaving

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Family, Christian, Prayer

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Thinking, Church, Needs

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Life And Love, Great Person, Really Great

If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men, Religion, Thousand

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Love, Inspirational, Friendship

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Christian, Running, Order

Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Political, Politician, Terrible

"The Cleveland Press" Newspaper, March 1, 1921.

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Inspirational, Education, School

"Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton : The Illustrated London News, 1905-1907". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1986.

On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but of the dawn.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Night, Garden, Heaven

O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Wall, Pride, People

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “A Hymn”

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

God, Atheist, Christian Inspirational

"Where All Roads Lead" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1922.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Nature, Adversity, Mountain Peaks

"The Hammer of God". Short story by G. K. Chesterton, December 1910.

Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Errors

It is always the secure who are humble.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Humble, Kids, Humility

"The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Philosophy, Telephones

The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Inspiring, Christian, Moving

When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Rights, Long, People

Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Home, Mean, Not Worth It

There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Running, Differences, States