It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
G. K. CHESTERTONArt, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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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.
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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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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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