The past is not what it was.
G. K. CHESTERTONAll men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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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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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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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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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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