Quotes - Nicholas Larkin (The United States) Showing 1-30 of 189

#1

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
― G.K. Chesterton

5120 likes

#2

“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: books, literature, on-fiction

2595 likes

#3

“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: education, ignorance, indoctrination

1913 likes

#4

“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.”
― G.K. Chesterton

1567 likes

#5

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: inspirational-humor

1381 likes

#6

“There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.”
― G.K. Chesterton

1828 likes

#7

“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: travel

1657 likes

#8

“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
― G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

tags: christian-behavior, christianity, pacifism, religion

1532 likes

#9

“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: free-speech

944 likes

#10

“Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: gullibility

1185 likes

#11

“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.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: ethics, firearms

740 likes

#12

“It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#13

“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: faith, forgiveness, hope, inspirational, love

1309 likes

#14

“Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly,”
― G.K. Chesterton

615 likes

#15

“You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.”
― G.K. Chesterton

488 likes

#16

“Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

tags: love

501 likes

#17

“The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles

553 likes

#18

“Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.”
― William Barclay, The Gospel of Luke - Enlarged Print Edition

tags: christianity, jesus, misattributed, quote

352 likes

#19

“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

415 likes

#20

“Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

436 likes

#21

“We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: country

311 likes

#22

“In prosperity, our friends know us. In adversity, we know our friends”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: real-life

232 likes

#23

“These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.”
― G.K. Chesterton

181 likes

#24

“Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.”
― G.K. Chesterton

113 likes

#25

“Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: reality, romance

109 likes

#26

“The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.”
― St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

tags: anxiety, peace-of-mind

413 likes

#27

“And men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, yet pass over the mystery of themselves without a thought.”
― St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

515 likes

#28

“The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.”
― St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

309 likes

#29

“The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.”
― St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

tags: bible, maturity

152 likes

#30

“The happy life is this - to rejoice to thee, in thee, and for thee.”
― Saint Augustine, The Confessions

tags: christianity

30 likes