The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
G. K. CHESTERTONThere are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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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.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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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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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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