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.
G. K. CHESTERTONIf I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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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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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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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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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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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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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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The past is not what it was.
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