And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
G. K. CHESTERTONThanks are the highest form of thought.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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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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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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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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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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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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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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