Gilbert K. Chesterton Christian Quotes and Sayings (Showing 1-15 of 15)

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Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#Christ, #Thinking, #Christmas, #Prosperous,

The really great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#Man, #Great, #Paying, #Defeats, #Feelings, #Father's Day,

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#Christian, #Brave, #Lottery, #Exploited,

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#Men, #Anything, #Choose, #Spines,

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#Resign, #Dwelling, #Convention, #Stiffen,

Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#Everything, #Hope, #Searching, #Strange, #Mean, #Hopeless,

I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#Believe, #Religion, #Presence Of God, #Good Friday,

Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#Christianity, #Bite, #Discouragement, #Doorway,

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#Enemies, #Make, #Infirmity,

When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what?

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#Difficult, #Locked, #Giving, #Coffin,

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#Love, #Forced, #Ghetto, #Mansion,

And it did for one wild moment cross my mind that, perhaps, those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#Cross, #Happiness, #Mind, #Religion,

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#God, #Put, #Merit, #Allow,

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#Man, #God,

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Fellow Gilbert K. Chesterton

Date of Birth/Born » Fri 29, May 1874
Died » Sun 14, June 1936
Occupation » Writer
Brief Note/Biography » Full name Gilbert Keith Chesterton, was an writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic.
Country » United Kingdom
Total Quotes » 15

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