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.
G. K. CHESTERTONStick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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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 man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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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.
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