G.K. Chesterton

“If there were no God, there would be no atheists.” ― G.K. Chesterton

Born: May 29, 1874 –
Died: June 14, 1936

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in Camden Hill in Kensington, London, and was baptized at the age of one month into the Church of England. Chesterton was an was best known as a writer, philosopher, Christian apologist, as well as a literary and art critic. Besides being very intelligent, Chesterton was extremely gifted in making his points with popular sayings, proverbs or as allegories.

Chesterton considered himself to be an orthodox Christian. He came to identify this position more and more and found it to be inline with Catholicism. He eventually converted from Anglicism to Roman Catholicism .

Atheism

"The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything."

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

“If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Conversion

"The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle."

G.K. Chesterton : The Catholic Church and Conversion (20th cent)

Church

"I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right"

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Decay of a Society

"A society is in Decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon."

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Discipleship

"Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble."

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

On God

"God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else."

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Tolerance

"Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything."

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Truth

"Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth."

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

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