I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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
-
-
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
G. K. CHESTERTON