“There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”

― G.K. Chesterton

Quotes by G.K. Chesterton never fail to capture truth at the core, leave me in awe, reveal things I didn’t know if needed to know, or make me laugh. In his lifetime, he wrote over 7000 essays including, A Defense of Baby Worship, Negative and Positive Morality, and (one of my favorites) A Piece of Chalk. If you are not yet an avid reader of Chesterton’s, or are still wondering “Who is this guy whose quotes I keep coming across?”, start here chesterton.org/who-is-t… . If you would like to delve deeper into his writings, the Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton has set out a thorough reading plan covering introductory books, apologetics, fiction, essays, literary criticism, poetry and more chesterton.org/READING-… . If you are interested in some shorter morsels, take a look at their chesterton.org/quotatio…, which are the best categorized selection I have come across.

“The two facts which attract almost every normal person to children are, first, that they are very serious, and secondly, that they are in consequence very happy…

The most unfathomable schools and sages have never attained to the gravity which dwells in the eyes of a baby of three months old. It is the gravity of astonishment at the universe, and astonishment at the universe is not mysticism, but a transcendent common sense.”

G.K. Chesterton, A Defense of Baby Worship

G.K. Chesterton by Herbert Lambert gelatin silver print, 1920s