The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Modern 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.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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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