A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
G. K. CHESTERTON
G. K. CHESTERTON
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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton [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.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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