To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
G. K. CHESTERTONTo love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
G. K. CHESTERTONI believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
G. K. CHESTERTONUnless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
G. K. CHESTERTONThese are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe past is not what it was.
G. K. CHESTERTONI have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
G. K. CHESTERTONWe are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
G. K. CHESTERTONCIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
G. K. CHESTERTONOne may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
G. K. CHESTERTONJesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
G. K. CHESTERTONTolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
G. K. CHESTERTONDoing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
G. K. CHESTERTONIf 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. CHESTERTONYou’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
G. K. CHESTERTONDo not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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