Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes - Page 4

• humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle

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  Doors, Seriousness, Handle

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• Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.

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  Years, Doctrine, Sin

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• The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. it is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists.

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  Hurt, Men, People

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• We're all in the same boat, and we're all seasick.

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  Boat

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• Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.

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  Fashion, Tradition

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• We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

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  Funny, Friendship, God

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Way, Revolution, Christianity

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• You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.

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  Love, Fighting, Fighting On

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• Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.

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  Men, Evil, Champion

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• To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

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  Orthodoxy, Morality, Action

  "A short history of England". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1917.

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• The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

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  Funny, Food, Sarcasm

  "Alarms And Discursions". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1910.

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• I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.

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  Fighting, Men, Happy Marriage

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.

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  Integrity, Apology, Men

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• No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.

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  Men, Break, Ten

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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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  Funny, Life, Presence Of Mind

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• But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun.; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic monotony that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.

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  Strong, Morning, Father

  "Orthodoxy". Book by G. K. Chesterton (chapter IV), 1908.

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• It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.

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  Media, World, News

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• Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Peace

  Orthodoxy (1908) ch. 7

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• I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

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  Funny, Believe, Evil

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• We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.

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  Christian, Moving, Church

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• The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.

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  Love, Pleasure, Crisis

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• God is not a symbol of goodness;
  goodness is a symbol of God

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  Goodness, Symbols

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• Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

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  Reality, Choices, Dignity

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• All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

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  Believe, Men, Matter

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• It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.

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  Believe, Common Sense, Firsts

  "The Oracle of the Dog". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1923.

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