G. K. Chesterton quotes

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

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

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

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.