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Faith Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
- Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
- Man is at his tallest when he bows.
- At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all…
- It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour,…
- Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue…
- Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.
- The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the…
- A man will not roll in the snow for a stream of tendency by which all things fulfill the law of their being. He will…
- A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
- Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
- The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic, of one man…
- It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To…
- As to the doubt of the soul I discover it to be false: a mood not a conclusion. My conclusion is the Faith. Corporate, organized,…
- The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.
- Faith means believing the unbelievable.
- Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died.
- Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.
- A faith is that which is able to survive a mood.
- The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might…
- Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves…
- They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals…
- A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
- Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
- Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.
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- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
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