The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
G. K. CHESTERTONWe 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.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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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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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Angels 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.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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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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It is always the secure who are humble.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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