The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONChastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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I 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
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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