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Quotes by G. Quotes by G. K. ChestertonK. Chesterton 22

Parodia spaniosa

Without education, Without education, we are in a horrible we are in a horrible and deadly danger of and deadly danger of taking educated taking educated people seriously.people seriously.

Lobivia tiegeliana

Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.

Echinocereus pectinatus

Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

Rebutia poecilantha

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

Astrophytum super kabuto

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Cochemiea poselgeriCochemiea poselgeri

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

Discocactus horstii

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

Matucana krahnii

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

Escobaria wissmannii

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

Oroya peruviana

The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Echinocereus klapperi

Feminism is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

Astrophytum coahuilense

There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

Echinocereus reichenbachii

everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.

It is absurd for the evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make

Escobaria minima

The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.

Discocactus pugionacanthus

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Rebutia pallida

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

Neowerdermannia vorwerkii

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Oroya peruviana

We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth..

Lobivia peclardiana

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

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