For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
G. K. CHESTERTONBeing a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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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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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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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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