G.K. Chestertson
Gilbert Keith Chestertson was an English writer and thinker born in England in 1874. He wrote everything from philosophy, plays, poems, to Christian apologetics. His writing of the 'Everlasting Man' is credited by C.S. Lewis to putting him on the path toward Christ.
He has been called a paradox because of the way he pointed things out in his writing. He would use the points people used to make their points against them. It is said that no one ever accomplished this quite like Mr Chestertson. God blessed him with wonderful reasoning, but at times, he would get lost at the train station and take the wrong train. He was a large man said to be 6 foot 4 and 290 lbs. He died in his sixties from congestive heart failure, but he left behind an enormous volume of writing. He is quote quite often by Evangelists and others, so below is a sampling of his quotes.
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
"If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments."
-quotes by G. K. Chesterton
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