Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

• Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

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  Hope, Children, Dragons

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• The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

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  Life, Hate, Passion

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• To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

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  Love, Inspirational, Success

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• Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

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  Fall, Brain, Open Minded

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• A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Common Sense

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• The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.

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  Believe, Men, Problem

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• God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

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  Inspirational, Looks, Sun

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• Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

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  Believe, People, Tolerance

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• The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.

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  Business, Mistake, Political

  "The Illustrated London News" Magazine, 1924.

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• Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

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  Christian, Wisdom, Religious

  "Points of friction". Book by Agnes Repplier, "Consolations of the Conservative", 1920.

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• Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

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  Jesus, Fearless, Church

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• You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.

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  Problem, Solutions, Ifs

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• It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

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  Political, Politician, Terrible

  "The Cleveland Press" Newspaper, March 1, 1921.

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• A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

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  Life And Love, Great Person, Really Great

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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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  Knowledge, Complaining, Absurd

  "St. Thomas Aquinas". Book by G.K. Chesterton, 1933.

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• When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

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  Gratitude, Live Life, Grateful

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• Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

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  Love, Faith, Religious

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• Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.

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  Christmas, Gratitude, Taken

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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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  Family, Christian, Prayer

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• The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves.

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  Educational, People, Leaving

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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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  Rights, Long, People

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• A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

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  Faith, Moral, Sanity

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• Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.

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  Feminist, Female, Characteristics

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• One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

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  Nature, Adversity, Mountain Peaks

  "The Hammer of God". Short story by G. K. Chesterton, December 1910.

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• Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

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  Issues, Principles, Moral

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