An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
G. K. CHESTERTONFairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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