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. CHESTERTONI am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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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 it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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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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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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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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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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