The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
G. K. CHESTERTONLet your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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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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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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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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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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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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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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