The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
G. K. CHESTERTONI believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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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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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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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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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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