I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
G. K. CHESTERTONCIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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The past is not what it was.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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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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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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