549 Quotes by G.K. Chesterton

We do not want a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.

Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.

The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.

The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.

The prime truth of woman, the universal mother . . . that if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

From all that terror teaches, / From lies of tongue and pen, / From all the easy speeches / That comfort cruel men, / From sale and profanation / Of honour and the sword, / From sleep and from damnation, / Deliver us, good Lord.

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.