Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
G. K. CHESTERTONA dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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[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.
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The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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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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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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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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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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