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Religious literature6 quotes
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. — G.K. Chesterton · 1908Neither reason nor faith will ever die; for men would die if deprived of either. — G.K. Chesterton · 1926The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild. — G.K. Chesterton · 1908All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. — G.K. Chesterton · 1908Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination. — G.K. Chesterton · 1908The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason. — G.K. Chesterton · 1908Legal writing1 quote
Our civilization has decided, and very justly decided, that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men.... When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. — G.K. Chesterton · 1909War poetry1 quote
They died to save their country and they only saved the world. — G.K. Chesterton · 1922