Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: May 29
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
Autobiographer
Biographer
Crime Writer
Essayist
Historian
Illustrator
Journalist
Literary Historian
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Philosopher
Beaconsfield
Buckinghamshire
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert Chesterton
G.K. Chesterton
G. K. C.
Ideas
Wars
Need
Dead
Freethinkers
Needs
Worry
Persecutions
Much
Shall
Freethinker
Never
Seen
Triumphant
Like
Idea
Persecution
World
War
Earnest
Past
Liberal
More quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough will feel as if rocks had been rolled upon them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Now there is any amount of this nonsense cropping up among American cranks. Anybody may propose to establish coercive Eugenics or enforce psychoanalysis that is, enforce confession without absolution.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all appearance, gone to the dogs? But, in each of these five cases, it was the dog that died.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
