Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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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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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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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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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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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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