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.
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
Coincidences are spiritual puns.
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
John F. Kennedy
A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
C. S. Lewis
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
One which i've always loved, but can't remember to whom it is attributed, my humble pardon for my ever so deep ignorance - people use complicated words to say simple things when they should be using simple words to say complicated things.
And my personal favorite of all time.......hello dear, but the author is unknown to most of you here.
P.S. Awesome thread btw.
