The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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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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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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