The past is not what it was.
G. K. CHESTERTON
G. K. CHESTERTON
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G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton The test of happiness is gratitude.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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