Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
G. K. CHESTERTONI don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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