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
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONModern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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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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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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