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To love means loving the unlov...

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

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The true object of all human l...

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

When we were children we were ...

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

A woman uses her intelligence ...

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

I would maintain that thanks a...

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

When it comes to life the crit...

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

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Let your religion be less of a...

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

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Lying in bed would be an altog...

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Love means to love that which ...

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

One may understand the cosmos,...

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The aim of life is appreciatio...

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.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The family is the test of free...

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

I owe my success to having lis...

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

There is nothing the matter wi...

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

It isn't that they can't see t...

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The only way to be sure of cat...

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

If I had only one sermon to pr...

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The word 'good' has many meani...

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.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The poor have sometimes object...

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Courage is almost a contradict...

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

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

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