Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
G. K. CHESTERTONGod is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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The past is not what it was.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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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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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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