We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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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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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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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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The past is not what it was.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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