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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “You don’t want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “The test of happiness is gratitude.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word “damn” than in the word “degeneration.””
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all appearance, gone to the dogs? But, in each of these five cases, it was the dog that died.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote: “Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate.”
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