Your favorite Chesterton quote?

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“The rough, shorthand way of putting the difference is that the Christian pities men because they are dying, and the Buddhist pities them because they are living. The Christian feels sorry for what damages the life of a man; but the Buddhist is sorry for him because he is alive.” G. K. Chesterton
 
“What we all dread most,” said the priest in a low voice, “is a maze with no center. That is why atheism is only a nightmare.”

“It is not bigotry to be certain we are right. But it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might poaaibly have gone wrong.”

“When people impute special vices to the Christian Church, they seem to entirely forget that the world (which is the only other thing there is) has these vices much more. The Church has been cruel; but the world has been much more cruel. The Church has plotted, but the world has plotted much more. The Church has been superstitious; but it has never been so superstitious as the world is when left to itself.”
 
“The way to love anything is to realize it might be lost.” G.K. Chesterton
 
“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.” - GKC
 
"…in my vision the heavenly chariot [the Church] flies thundering through the ages, the dull heresies sprawling and prostrate, the wild truth reeling but erect.” -G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy.
 
On the scientist as idealogue:

So long as he supposed that material inquiry supported materialism he roared and bellowed that we must “accept the conclusions of science.” But he is not in the least inclined himself to accept the conclusions of science if they happen to go against his own crude and clumsy creed. June 14, 1930
 
“You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the play and the opera, and grace before the concert and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, playing, dancing, and grace before I dip the pen in ink.”
 
“Charity means pardoning the unpardonable, or it is no virtue at all. Hope means hoping when all things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.”
 
Many of my faves have already been posted, & I haven’t read all the posts, so please pardon if this was already mentioned:

“An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.” - G. K. Chesterton On Running After Ones Hat, All Things Considered, 1908

P.S: Hit the link in my signature that will take you directly to EWTN’s audio library, where you can listen online to their series on Chesterton, hosted by Dale Ahlquist. 👍
 
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