// GK Chesterton Quotes//

“Just going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.” 
 

“The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.” 
 

“People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.” 
 

“According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.” 
 

“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.” 
 

“Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.” 
 

“It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.” 
 

“Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.” 
 

“Once abolish the God and the government becomes the God.” 
 

“In prosperity, our friends know us. In adversity, we know our friends” 
 

“There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.” 
 

“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.” 
 

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

“The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”