I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
G. K. CHESTERTONChristianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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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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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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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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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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