Thanks are the highest form of thought.
G. K. CHESTERTONOne sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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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.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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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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