The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
G. K. CHESTERTON
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G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton 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.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton 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.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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