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.
G. K. CHESTERTONHope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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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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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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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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