When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
G. K. CHESTERTONFaith means believing the unbelievable.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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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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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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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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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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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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The past is not what it was.
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