Miracle Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.”

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Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.

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Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means…

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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

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Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is almost always dishonest. The writer of the snippet merely refers to a frivolous and fugitive fact in a frivolous and fugitive way. The writer of the leading article has to…

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For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the…

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Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.

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A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People…

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The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.

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Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?

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What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which made him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his…

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Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

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The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel.

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This, at last, was where things were as they ought to be. Everything was in its place -- the tree, the earth underneath, the rock, the moss. In autumn, it would be right; in winter under the snow, it would be perfect in its wintriness. Spring would come again and miracle within miracle would unfold, each at its special pace,…

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Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh…

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The miracle drugs (neuroleptics) cause the worst plague of brain damage in medical history.

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We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.

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Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches talk about having evidence of Divine authority because they have miracles. Miracles in our time are like candles in the street at midday. We do not want miracles. They are to teach men how to find…

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