I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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Stick 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.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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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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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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