Eight Chesterton Quotes
Eight days into our Founders’ Fundraising Campaign - eight Chesterton quotes to live by.
G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was a prolific writer in England. A convert to Catholicism, he is known as a journalist, lecturer, biographer, philosopher, and a man of the people. He is the patron of the Chesterton Academy of Mandan. Please enjoy eight quotes from one of the most quotable men of all time. We’ll the “Prince of Paradox” will speak for himself.
“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
“Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.”
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
“When you break the big laws, you do not get freedom; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.”
“I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily afraid of the princess.”
“If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.”
