We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
G. K. CHESTERTONThere are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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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.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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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.
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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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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.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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