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The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that Man must go… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages:… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But, if I did… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it is a clear… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is… — C.S. Lewis
Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It] is an incapacity,… — Eugene H. Peterson
Prayer is not only asking, it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural, and Jesus says, "every… — Oswald Chambers
Often Satan injects pride into the believer's spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to esteem himself a… — Watchman Nee
Spiritual strongholds begin with a thought. One thought becomes a consideration. A consideration develops into an attitude, which leads then to action. Action repeated becomes… — Elisabeth Elliot
Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers, and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things. It is only on… — Earl Nightingale
A warrior doesn't know remorse for anything he has done, because to isolate one's acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil is to place… — Carlos Castaneda
Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid. — Carlos Castaneda
Everything hangs on one's thinking. — Seneca the Younger
The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself. — Seneca the Younger
Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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