It is always the secure who are humble.
G. K. CHESTERTONAnd when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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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.
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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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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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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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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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