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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

G. K. Chesterton

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Adventure Right Wrong
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. CHESTERTON

Compatible Fight Happiness Man Marriage Survival Woman
When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
G. K. CHESTERTON

Belief Difficult God Heaven Himself
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Day Expectation Praise Way
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Afraid Corruption Coward Devil Fake God Spiritual Stupidity
We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Deep Media Silence Validation
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Duty High Man Responsibility Time
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Mystery Poet Silence Subject
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Boat Sick Togetherness
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Man Philosophy Secret Understand
O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Division Earth Ourselves People Pride
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Bad Democracy Education Government
CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Civilization Communication Judgement Speed
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. CHESTERTON

Earth Exception Nature Wonder
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Existence God Refuse Worship
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.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Myself Religion Right Thinking Wrong

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