Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#affair #less #love #love affair #more

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#contradiction #courage #desire #die #form

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#may #merely #more #perfectly #property

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#doubled #form #gratitude #happiness #highest

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#look #parade #rain #rainbow #rains

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#because #free #free man #freedom #himself

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#consists #drawing #like #line #morality

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#better #bread #compromise #half #loaf

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#except #ideal #ideals #matter #nothing

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#because #been #compensated #does #healed