G. K. Chesterton on faith
G. K. Chesterton128 quotes“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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Faith means believing the unbelievable.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton 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.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton [No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton
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