There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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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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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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