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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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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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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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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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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