Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

All I can do is my talking on the track, and I believe that when they look at the facts, people can judge for themselves if it's good or bad.

Things and persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. How unconsciously we judge others by the light that is within ourselves, condemning or approving them by our own conception of right and wrong, honor and dishonor! We show by our judgment just what the light within us is.

People will be able to judge for themselves.

A student comes to me with a piece of writing, holds it out, says, 'Is this good?' A whole sequence of emergencies goes off in my mind. That's not a question to ask anyone but yourself.

Peace of mind, joy and happiness cannot be purchased with money or worldly goods.

The cause of happiness and the solution to our problems do not lie in knowledge of material things. Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind. If we want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must learn how to control our mind.

One can often hear from the young people:" I do not want to live according to others' mind. I can think of it myself. " Why should one think of something, when it is already thought about. Take it and go farther, this is the strength of the mankind.

Our mind is all we've got. Not that it won't lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.

If religious belief be indeed so necessary to mankind, as we are continually assured that it is, there is great reason to lament, that the intellectual grounds of it should require to be backed by moral bribery or subornation of the understanding.

There is no joy in the world like the joy of bringing one soul to Christ.

Always remember to judge everything by your inner feeling of bliss.

Literary people are forever judging the quality of the mind by the turn of expression.

Don't judge or analyze what you observe. Watch the thought, feel the emotion, observe the reaction. Don't make a personal problem out of them. You will then feel something more powerful than any of those things that you observe: the still, observing presence itself behind the content of your mind, the silent watcher.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.

From what might appear to you to be small choices, the Lord will lead you to the happiness you want. Through your choices He will be able to bless countless others.

Place nothing above the verdict of your own mind.

Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.

Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul.

The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.

Doing what we do [filming], you have to be your own critic and judge and adjudicate as to what you do and how it turned out.

You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.

In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way; but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded.

There is no other labor in all the world that brings to a human heart, judging from my own personal experience, more joy, peace and serenity than proclaiming the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ

Hear Everything and judge for yourself