The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere 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.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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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All government is an ugly necessity.
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