Quote by G. K. Chesterton Download Open image ““Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.”” — G. K. Chesterton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Dont ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up. — Mulimah4lyf Copy Share Image
“other little wooden fences can come down too. How? When? God only knows.” — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Someday somebody's going to come along and knock this old fence down.” — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“So you see, it all depends on which side of the fence you're looking from.” — Ellen Marie Wiseman Copy Share Image
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“We aren't guaranteed the time we think we need to mend fences with those we love.” — Eileen Wilks Copy Share Image
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Of course, as always, there is an arbitrary, invisible fence in place. You can't see it, but it will always keep you out. It… — Leila Sales Copy Share Image
“It's just because I have picked a little about mystics that I have no use for mystagogues. Real mystics don't hide mysteries, they reveal them. They set a thing up in broad daylight, and when you've seen it it's still a mystery. But the mystagogues hide a thing in darkness and secrecy, and when you find it, it's a platitude.” — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share
“The history of the thing might amuse you," he said. "When first I became one of the New Anarchists I tried all kinds of respectable disguises. I dressed up as a bishop. I read up all about bishops in our anarchist pamphlets, in Superstition the Vampire and Priests of Prey. I certainly understood from them that bishops are strange and… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share
“An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered." - On Running After Ones Hat, All Things Considered, 1908” — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share
“People who lose all their charity generally lose all their logic.” — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth: this has been exactly reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share
“I mean,' he said with increasing vehemence, 'that if there be a house for me in heaven it will either have a green lamp-post and a hedge, or something quite as positive and personal as a green lamp-post and a hedge. I mean that God bade me love one spot and serve it, and do all things however wild in… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share
“But how will you bear an absentminded man who, if he happens to see you, will kill you? That is what tries the nerves, abstraction combined with cruelty. Men have felt it sometimes when they went through wild forests, and felt that the animals there were at once innocent and pitiless. They might ignore or slay. How would you like… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share
“The world will never be safe for democracy—it is a dangerous trade” — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I was suddenly possessed with the idea that the blind, blank back of his head really was his face—an awful, eyeless face staring at… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
