G.K. Chesterton was the man – so many paradoxical quotes that just dig so deep.

A few years back I decided to start putting inspirational quotes (almost all are from some of my favorite religious folks, brothers, sisters, and cool-people – a few are, well… responses to the events/times at the used date lol).

Just going through the old files as I digitally “Five S (5S)” my computers.  Hope someone finds some of these useful!

Quotes List:

• [07/12/2010] “Humility is the true guardian of chastity.” -St. Philip Neri
• [06/07/2010] “Let us strive after purity of heart, for the Holy Spirit dwells in candid and simple minds.” -St. Philip Neri
• [05/18/2010] “Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.” -Hilaire Belloc
• [05/04/2010] “From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there’s nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.” -Hilaire Belloc
• [04/19/2010] “Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.” -Fulton J. Sheen
• [03/24/2010] “What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.” -St. Jerome
• [03/11/2010] “I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are very wise and very beautiful; but I never read in either of them: “Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden.” -St. Augustine
• [02/08/2010] “An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.” -Pope Benedict XVI
• [01/06/2010] “A comprehended god is no god.” -John Chrysostom
• [12/14/2009] “Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.” -Karl Barth

• [11/30/2009] “Men have the power of thinking – that they may avoid sin.” -John Chrysostom
• [11/16/2009] “Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.” -John Chrysostom
• [10/29/2009] “Labels are traps, and one way that you can stabilize a piece of behavior in an unuseful way is to label it.” -Richard Bandler & John Grinder (Creators of NLP)
• [10/27/2009] “He who is conscious of danger creates peace for himself; he who takes things lightly creates his own downfall.” ~Ninja Wisdom
• [10/20/2009] “Mass sterilization of humans though drugs in the water supply is OK as long as it doesn’t harm livestock.” -Ecoscience (p.787-8), John Holdren, Current U.S. Science Czar
• [10/06/2009] “The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.” -John Chrysostom
• [09/09/2009] “Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.” -John Paul II

• [08/25/2009] “There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.” -Blaise Pascal
• [08/11/2009] “Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.” ~Heinrich Heine, Almansor, 1823
• [07/27/2009] “In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.” -Blaise Pascal
• [07/13/2009] “Happiness is a mystery like religion, and should never be rationalised.” -G.K. Chesterton
• [06/30/2009] “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.” -G.K. Chesterton
• [06/16/2009] “Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.” -G.K. Chesterton
• [06/01/2009] “Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.” -G.K. Chesterton
• [05/18/2009] “The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.” -Blaise Pascal
• [05/04/2009] “Fairy tales are more than true — not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.” -G.K. Chesterton
• [04/20/2009] “The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.” -G.K. Chesterton
• [04/06/2009] “As enunciated today, ‘progress’ is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.” -G.K.Chesterton
• [03/23/2009] “One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.” -G.K. Chesterton
• [03/09/2009] “It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. 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
• [02/23/2009] “The gospel to me is simply irresistible.” -Blaise Pascal
• [02/11/2009] “This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.” – G.K.Chesterton
• [01/27/2009] “Give me control of a nation’s money supply, and I care not who makes its laws.” -Mayer A. Rothschild
• [01/26/2009] “A litany of evil is often called good, by those who should know better.” -Fr. John Corapi
• [01/07/2009] “Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.” -Blaise Pascal
• [12/15/2008] “It is not fitting, when one is in God’s service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.” -St. Francis of Assisi
• [12/02/2008] “The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.” -Fulton J. Sheen
• [11/17/2008] “Love is a mutual self-giving that ends in self-recovery.” -Fulton J. Sheen
• [11/04/2008] “Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.” -St. Francis of Assisi
• [10/20/2008] “Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.” -Blaise Pascal
• [10/07/2008] “Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.” -St. Francis of Assisi
• [09/23/2008] “If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.” -Blaise Pascal (Pascal’s Wager)
• [09/08/2008] “Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.” -Blaise Pascal
• [08/25/2008] “The God who created us without us will not save us without us.” -St. Augustine
• [08/11/2008] “While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.” -St. Francis of Assisi
• [07/28/2008] “Love is the beauty of the soul.” -St. Augustine
• [07/14/2008] “Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.” -St. Augustine
• [06/30/2008] “Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.” -John Paul II
• [06/16/2008] “The big print giveth, and the fine print taketh away.” -Fulton J. Sheen
• [05/28/2008] “Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.” -St. Francis of Assisi
• [05/05/2008] “Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.” -St. Augustine
• [04/11/2008] “Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best.” -St. Jerome

Do you have some excellent quotes of your own you’d like to share?  Why wait – share ’em!

Thanks for reading!