The past is not what it was.
G. K. CHESTERTONJesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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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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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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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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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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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”.
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