One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
G. K. CHESTERTONHope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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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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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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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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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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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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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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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 object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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