No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
G. K. CHESTERTONNothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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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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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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