An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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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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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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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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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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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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