Passion makes every detail important.
G. K. CHESTERTONTruth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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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.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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