Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
G. K. CHESTERTONChristianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
G. K. CHESTERTONA really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
G. K. CHESTERTONVariability 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. CHESTERTONModern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
G. K. CHESTERTONThanks are the highest form of thought.
G. K. CHESTERTONOne sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
G. K. CHESTERTONMarriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
G. K. CHESTERTONThese are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
G. K. CHESTERTONAnd when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
G. K. CHESTERTONWhen belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
G. K. CHESTERTONIf men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
G. K. CHESTERTONWe are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
G. K. CHESTERTONIt 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.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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