Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
G. K. CHESTERTONPassion makes every detail important.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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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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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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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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