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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Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
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.
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
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.
The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
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