It is always the secure who are humble.
G. K. CHESTERTON
G. K. CHESTERTON
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G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Thanks are the highest form of thought.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton 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.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton 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.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Dwayne JohnsonDwayne Johnson It is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling – and indeed healthy – to ask why you have been given so much.
Condoleezza RiceCondoleezza Rice I prefer to be accused unjustly, for then I have nothing to reproach myself with, and joyfully offer this to the good Lord. Then I humble myself at the thought that I am indeed capable of doing the thing of which I have been accused.
Therese of LisieuxTherese of Lisieux God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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