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  • #1
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #2
    G.K. Chesterton
    “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

  • #3
    G.K. Chesterton
    “To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #4
    G.K. Chesterton
    “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #5
    G.K. Chesterton
    “If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #6
    G.K. Chesterton
    “It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #7
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #8
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #9
    G.K. Chesterton
    “There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #10
    G.K. Chesterton
    “The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #11
    G.K. Chesterton
    “These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #12
    G.K. Chesterton
    “The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #13
    Peter Kreeft
    “The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.”
    Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock

  • #14
    Fulton J. Sheen
    “Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.”
    Fulton J. Sheen, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary

  • #15
    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    Groucho Marx

  • #16
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #17
    C.S. Lewis
    “No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #18
    Neil Gaiman
    “[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologise to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read...”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #19
    Jane Smiley
    “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
    Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

  • #20
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    “No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.”
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  • #21
    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

  • #22
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

  • #23
    Bill Cosby
    “A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need advice.”
    Bill Cosby

  • #24
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #25
    J.K. Rowling
    “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
    J.K. Rowling

  • #26
    J.K. Rowling
    “We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #27
    J.K. Rowling
    “Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.”
    J.K. Rowling

  • #28
    J.K. Rowling
    “Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”
    J.K. Rowling

  • #29
    J.K. Rowling
    “It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #30
    J.K. Rowling
    “For instance, this new idea that You-Know-Who can kill with a single glance from his eyes. That’s a basilisk, listeners. One simple test: Check whether the thing that’s glaring at you has got legs. If it has, it’s safe to look into its eyes, although if it really is You-Know-Who, that’s still likely to be the last thing you ever do.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows



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