No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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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 men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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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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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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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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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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