O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
G. K. CHESTERTONAn adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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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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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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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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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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The past is not what it was.
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