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. CHESTERTONThe problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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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.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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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.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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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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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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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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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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