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Difficult Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
- The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of…
- The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind has not passed…
- The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried . . . not that it can't remake the world,…
- When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what?
- Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.
- Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.
- The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
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