Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable faith means believing the unbelievable and hoping means to hope when things are hopeless.

— G. K. Chesterton

Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable Faith means believing the unbelievable And hoping means to hope when things are hopeless.

— G. K. Chesterton

Happiness is a mystery like religion and it should never be rationalized.

— G. K. Chesterton

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men but one and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

— G. K. Chesterton

He who lives in the future lives in a featureless blank he lives in personality he lives in Nirvana. The past is democratic because it is a people. The future is despotic because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction just as each man is alone in a dream.

— G. K. Chesterton

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

— G. K. Chesterton

I am not absent-minded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

— G. K. Chesterton

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on men unless they act.

— G. K. Chesterton

Is dishwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

— G. K. Chesterton

It isn't that they can't see the solution it's that they can't see the problem.

— G. K. Chesterton