For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
G. K. CHESTERTONImpartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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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 men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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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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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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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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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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