Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
G. K. CHESTERTONI 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.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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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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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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