I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
G. K. CHESTERTONHope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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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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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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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.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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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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