Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes - Page 2

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Nature, Adversity, Mountain Peaks

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

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• The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

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  Grandmother, Men, Good Man

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• The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.

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  Inspiring, Christian, Moving

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• Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.

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  Long, Firsts, Enough

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• The test of happiness is gratitude.

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  Christian, Gratitude, Tests

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• There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

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  Life, Happiness, Smart

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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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• It is always the secure who are humble.

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  Humble, Kids, Humility

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

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  Inspirational, Education, School

  "Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton : The Illustrated London News, 1905-1907". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1986.

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• If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

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  God, Atheist, Christian Inspirational

  "Where All Roads Lead" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1922.

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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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  Believe, Russia, Government

  "Christendom in Dublin". Book by G. K. Chesterton, Ch. III: Very Christian Democracy., 1932.

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• Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.

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  Errors

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• Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.

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  Doe, Moral, Sanity

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• We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.

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  Silence, Needs, Censorship

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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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• It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

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  Husband, Ideas, Feminism

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• If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments

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  Men, Religion, Thousand

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• Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

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  Courage, Veterans Day, Strong

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.

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  Moving, Christian Inspirational, Mind

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Philosophy, Telephones

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• Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

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  Obvious Things, Civilization, Decay

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• On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but of the dawn.

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  Night, Garden, Heaven

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• Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
  Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity.
  He who has the faith has the fun.

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  Fun, Angel, Devil

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• I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice

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  Practice, Religion, May

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• The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.

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  Miracle, Incredibles, Happens

  "The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1911.

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