I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
G. K. CHESTERTONLet your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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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 test of happiness is gratitude.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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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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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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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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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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