There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThese are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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