Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes - Page 3

• The test of happiness is gratitude.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Gratitude, Tests

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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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• When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what?

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  Names, Heaven, Belief

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• For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

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  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

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• These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

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  Christian, Religion, Morality

  "The Illustrated London News" Magazine, August 11, 1928.

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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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• There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

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  Beauty, Broken Heart, Beautiful

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

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• I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.

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  Inspirational, Cities, Parks

  "Trust Or Consequences : Build Trust Today Or Lose Your Market Tomorrow". Book by Al Golin, 2004.

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• CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.

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  Communication, Civilisation, Judged

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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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• 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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• The modern habit of saying "This is my opinion, but I may be wrong" is entirely irrational. If I say that it may be wrong, I say that is not my opinion. The modern habit of saying "Every man has a different philosophy; this is my philosophy and it suits me" – the habit of saying this is mere weak-mindedness. A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

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  Philosophy, Moon, Men

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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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• Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

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  Art, Funny Friend, Drawing

  "The Golden Book" Magazine, Vol. 7, (p. 323), 1928.

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• A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

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  Creativity, Construction, Creative Thought

  "Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1911.

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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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• If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.

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  Atheist, Believe, Doctors

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• An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

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  Inspirational, Life, Travel

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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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• Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Philosophy, Reality

  1908 Orthodoxy, ch.3.

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• The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

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  Education, School, People

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• The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

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  Men, Catholic, Riddle

  "The Book of Job". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1907.

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• We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.

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  Fear, Blessing, Men

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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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• When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that Islam itself was only an aggressive raid against the old and ordered civilization in these parts. I do not say it in mere hostility to the religion of Mahomet; I am fully conscious of many values and virtues in it; but certainly it was Islam that was the invasion and Christendom that was the thing invaded.

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  Civilization, People, Islam

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