Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem".
G.K. ChestertonStichwörter: women wife polygamy variability
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
G.K. ChestertonStichwörter: gratitude
My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.
G.K. ChestertonI do not, in my private capacity, believe that a baby gets his best physical food by sucking his thumb; nor that a man gets his best moral food by sucking on his soul, and denying its dependence on God or other good things. I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G.K. ChestertonThis is not a university town full of philosophies; it is a Zion of the hundred sieges raging with religions; not a place where resolutions can be voted and amended, but a place where men can be crowned and crucified.
G.K. ChestertonThe devil takes us to the top of an exceeding high mountain and makes us dizzy; but God lets us look at the mountain.
G.K. ChestertonA religion is not the church a man goes to but the cosmos he lives in; and if any sceptic forgets it, the maddest fanatic beating an Orange drum about the Battle of the Boyne is a better philosopher than he.
G.K. ChestertonStichwörter: religion catholicism catholic
Wherever men are still theological there is still some chance of their being logical.
G.K. ChestertonStichwörter: catholicism catholic
I do not admit that theological points are small points. Theology is only thought applied to religion; and those who prefer a thoughtless religion need not be so very disdainful of others with a more rationalistic taste. The old joke that the Greek sects only differed about a single letter is about the lamest and most illogical joke in the world. An atheist and a theist only differ by a single letter; yet theologians are so subtle as to distinguish definitely between the two.
G.K. ChestertonIt is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes fire. The creeds condemned as complex have something like the secret of sex; they can breed thoughts.
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