We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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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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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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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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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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