G. K. Chesterton on god
G. K. Chesterton128 quotes“If 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.”
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton 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. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton 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.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Passion makes every detail important.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton 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. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton
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