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G K Chesterton Quotes about Life, Biblical Worldview

Family

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

Biblical Worldview

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Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

  • The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
  • The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
GK Chesterton Quote

Character

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  • When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
  • 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.
  • Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
  • I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
  • It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
  • Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

 

Quotes about Life

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

  • The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
  • “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
  • The simplification of anything is always sensational.
  • An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
  • Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
  • Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

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