G. K. Chesterton on feeling
G. K. Chesterton128 quotes“A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.”
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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton 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.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton
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