Gilbert K. Chesterton Ordinary Quotations

It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.

We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.

The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal itself is an abnormality.

All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.