We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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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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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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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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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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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.
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