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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?

G. K. Chesterton

Thanks are the highest form of thought.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Gratitude Thankful Thinking
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Day Expectation Praise Way
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Difference Exception Movement Philosophy Science
When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
G. K. CHESTERTON

Belief Difficult God Heaven Himself
The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Goodness Man Meaning Necessary Time Word
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Education Man School Time
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Failure Home Success Work Worth
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Art Draw Moral Sketch
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Believe People Tolerance Virtue
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Existence God Refuse Worship
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Avoid Goodness Requirement Virtue Wife Woman Yourself
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Construction Creation Existence Love
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. CHESTERTON

Division Earth Ourselves People Pride
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. CHESTERTON

Abolishment Believe Criticism God Government Truth

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