Men have not got tired of Christianity; they have never found enough Christianity to get tired of. Men have never wearied of political justice; they have wearied of waiting for it.
G.K. Chesterton
Related Now they have a riddle. - Criminal Minds DEYTH BANGER Reasons... questions... what they have in common? - All get finded in the hard way. DEYTH BANGER Words don’t take you anywhere, at the most they aid in a mental projection; it’s the experience ... RAMANA PEMMARAJU Your story matters. The thoughts you think matter. The words you use matter. It can be the differenc... KRISTIN RATH O we are wearied of this sense of guilt, Wearied of pleasure’s paramour despair, Wearied of every ... OSCAR WILDE When a word of God is spoken it will always be personal and yet we will find it touching the lives o... JOHN M SHEEHAN If you stopped yourself every time you said "I have to", and changed it to "I get to" it might chang... KYLE PAGERLY There just aren't enough fields. (City leaders) keep talking about building more fields, but they ne... JOE SULLIVAN Why be greedy when you can have it all. ANTHONY T. HINCKS Mark My Words, My Words In Other Words Are Not Just Words. SYED SHARUKH There have been men before … who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came ... C.S. LEWIS Have Faith in the Pursuit of your Dreams. LUCHO LUIS VIDES There will always be someone better looking; better off; smarter; richer; thinner; taller; shorter; ... ANTHONY T. HINCKS How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent. W. R. INGE Why is it that we want what we don't have, yet we can't see what we do have? ANTHONY T. HINCKS My Words Are For The Ones Who Get It, Rest Forget It ! SYED SHARUKH Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired. MAE WEST I have friends among the Christians, whom I love, and never for a moment have I thought of attacking... BJORNSTJERNE BJORNSON First and last, it's a question of money. Those men who own the earth make the laws to protect what ... CLARENCE DARROW I’ll never get tired of hearing your sweet words, but I will get tired of not DIEGO VELASQUEZ O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ... JOHN M SHEEHAN Just because you haven't got a home, doesn't make you homeless. and Just because you don't... ANTHONY T. HINCKS What right have such men to represent Christianity—as if it were an institution for getting up idi... GEORGE ELIOT Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good. KARL BARTH Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both ... OSCAR WILDE Strength is not something you have, it's something you find. EMMA SMITH Words have a taste, sweet but subtle, like dark chocolate; the scent of old bookshops; a flamenco rh... CHLOE THURLOW To believe in something can be inspiration for many people .To believe is to have faith in what you ... GARY F EVANS... What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb. "Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, ... MITCH ALBOM Love- the infatuation kind- 'he's so handsome, she's so beautiful'- that can shrivel. As soon as som... MITCH ALBOM Happiness is wanting what you have instead of wanting what you don't have. LORRIN L. LEE You can BE, DO, and HAVE ...absolutely ANYTHING you really, really want to BE, DO, and HAVE. LORRIN L. LEE We tend to not appreciate what we have until we lose it. LORRIN L. LEE Pathetic is when you assume the worst, because you are incapable of thinking beyond your own mental ... EMMA PAUL Those who hate, are merely wallowing in self pity. Those who lie about someone to destroy his or her... EMMA PAUL Words have power," Isaac answered. Words begin and end wars. They create and destroy families. They ... LORI HANDELAND I'm tired of this Earth,these people. I'm tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives. DR. MANHATTAN (WATCHMEN BOOK)N People that don't know what they are worth will always see their capture's wings, but never their ta... SHANNON L. ALDER I never get tired of that song. I can do it 50 times a day, and still have fun with it. CHUCK LEAVELL To have a lot of money does not mean you are successful SUNDAY ADELAJA They didn't do anything different. He just got tired. They've got a lot of bodies, and they kept thr... ROB EVANS Men who have reached and passed 45, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and... BENJAMIN HAYDON That’s not fair! Words we often speak when God's word becomes flesh in our lives 2 Timo... JOHN M SHEEHAN A lot of guys have been here for a while and we haven't done anything. Coach Collier said he's tired... BLAKE AHEARN When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tir... MIKE SHINODA Having riches ultimately means having few needs. J.R. RIM Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other wo... BENJAMIN HAYDON Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other wo... GOLDA MEIR It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out... BLAISE PASCAL Lovers never get tired of each other because they are forever talking about themselves. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD I wish to Heaven I was married," she said resentfully as she attacked the yams with loathing. "I'm t... MARGARET MITCHELL Don't do it, because you have to do it.
Do it, because you love to do it. PRITISH PATTANAIK To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool. JEFFREY FRY I never get tired of exploring Americana or country music, and I always have a little bit of a croon... K. D. LANG Girls who are on top of things must have three hundred ways of responding to tired thirty-five-year-... HARUKI MURAKAMI Never, never! ... I get tired of negativity in our country. I get tired of people who only want to k... RICHARD SIMMONS As tears of bubbling pitch stream down my face, my dark work will begin. I will open one of my six m... JERRY HOLKINS Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired ... KURT VONNEGUT Christianity simply does not make sense until you have faced the sort of facts I have been describin... C.S. LEWIS That kind of forgiveness is of God. And if they have it, they have it, and if they don't, well, mayb... JAMES C. DOBSON The fewer the words, the better you’re heard! CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do. CRAIG GROESCHEL In other times it may have been the business of Christianity to champion the equality of all men; it... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice. ROBERT JORDAN I thought you'd be interested in these things as a government man. Ain't you mixed up in the prices ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I never get tired of hearing compliments. JOHN LITHGOW I'm fed up with it. I'm sick and tired of the delays, tired of the waiting. I'm hanging it up. You c... RAYMOND DAVIDSON I'm tired of saying, "How wonderful you are!" to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've go... MARGARET MITCHELL This evening, which I have tried to spirit away, is a strange burden to me. While time moves on, whi... ALAIN-FOURNIER Enjoy the challenges you face today, some people have none. THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL We have a right to life, not on it. DANIEL MELGAçO Have confidence, will do. MUHAMMED HAIDER Be the best you can be. Do the best you can do. Have the best you can have. LORRIN L. LEE A man may have no bad habits and have worse MARK TWAIN Did you know that what you really, really, really want ...you now have? LORRIN L. LEE Lull me with your lullabies.. Serenade me with your souls. Make me dance with symphonies.. Do jazz w... KIM JOHN A. AGUIRRE Trick to getting something is to pretend you already have it. ANGEL ORTIZ I don't have a lot of time to speak... but we will speak soon. DEYTH BANGER Humans don't have any type of interest... HAVING SO MUCH STUFF AROUND THEM AND SO LITTLE INTEREST IN... DEYTH BANGER It's time to change... it's time to start working on yourself.... improve yourself.... you don't hav... DEYTH BANGER Gift ain't what you take by effort, as swag ain't what you worthy have. TOBA BETA But language is malleable, and it is not always on the side of truth. This is something every writer... CAROLINA DE ROBERTIS And we're such language-based creatures that to some extent we cannot know what we cannot name. And ... JOHN GREEN Everyone has there own good reasons for being what they are being, doing what they are doing, and ha... LORRIN L. LEE I have fun at work. CAROL KANE Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ... SARAH DARER LITTMAN Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, althou... VOLTAIRE THE DEVIL. As far as I went, yes. But I will now go further, and confess to you that men get tired o... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW They worked hard this week. I guess they were tired of losing. For the last couple of days they have... DEBBI MILLER I am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of a... KAY REDFIELD JAMISON I'm never tired of winning, and I'm never tired of skiing. LINDSEY VONN I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. WALT WHITMAN Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. ... JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. ... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU I think we have the best weekly newspaper in the Houston region. Our readers tell us over and over (... CYNTHIA CALVERT We have five kids that never came off the court, ... I know they were tired, but they showed a lot o... CATHERINE YOUNG I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, ... ANAïS NIN Sometimes life gets a little boring so you have to do
something crazy to remember your alive! NEIL OLSSON I got married for the wrong reasons. I was tired of being alone. I have to own that. It was me, not ... STEVE HARVEY
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CHESTERTON ..."vers libre," (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a d... G.K. CHESTERTON I do not deny, but strongly affirm, the right of the State to interfere to cure a great evil. I say ... G.K. CHESTERTON To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once. G.K. CHESTERTON If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ... G.K. CHESTERTON It is quite certain that the skirt means female dignity, not female submission; it can be proved by ... G.K. CHESTERTON On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the... G.K. CHESTERTON The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accide... G.K. CHESTERTON I had tried to be happy by telling myself that man is an animal, like any other which sought its mea... G.K. CHESTERTON [Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run... G.K. CHESTERTON That a good man may have his back to the wall is no more than we knew already, but that God could ha... G.K. CHESTERTON If Innocent is happy, it is because he is innocent. If he can defy the conventions, it is just becau... G.K. CHESTERTON There is something sinister about putting a leprechaun in a workhouse. The only solid comfort is tha... G.K. CHESTERTON Man may behold what ugliness he likes if he is sure that he will not worship it; but there are some ... G.K. CHESTERTON If we are calm," replied the policeman, "it is the calm of organized resistance." "Eh?" said Sy... G.K. CHESTERTON Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed... G.K. CHESTERTON As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No... G.K. CHESTERTON I mean that we here are on the wrong side of the tapestry,' answered Father Brown. 'The things that ... G.K. CHESTERTON How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win. G.K. CHESTERTON The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens... G.K. CHESTERTON No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for edu... G.K. CHESTERTON A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should ... G.K. CHESTERTON A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A mode... G.K. CHESTERTON These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own. G.K. CHESTERTON There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people. G.K. CHESTERTON Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, b... G.K. CHESTERTON There is a limit to human charity," said Lady Outram, trembling all over. "There is," sai... G.K. CHESTERTON He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of c... G.K. CHESTERTON Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being ... G.K. CHESTERTON We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But wha... G.K. CHESTERTON Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly, G.K. CHESTERTON There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions. G.K. CHESTERTON We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practica... G.K. CHESTERTON He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's wha... G.K. CHESTERTON If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. G.K. CHESTERTON The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautifu... G.K. CHESTERTON I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. G.K. CHESTERTON My country, right or wrong,” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperat... 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 Can you not see, […] that fairy tales in their essence are quite solid and straightforward; but th... G.K. CHESTERTON the things common to all men are more important than the things peculiar to any men. Ordinary things... G.K. CHESTERTON The pessimists believe that the cosmos is a clock that is running down; the progressives believe it ... G.K. CHESTERTON