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.
G. K. CHESTERTONAngels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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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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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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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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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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[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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