When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
G. K. CHESTERTONWhen men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
G. K. CHESTERTONFairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
G. K. CHESTERTONThanks are the highest form of thought.
G. K. CHESTERTONImpartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
G. K. CHESTERTONA Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
G. K. CHESTERTONJournalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
G. K. CHESTERTONIdolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
G. K. CHESTERTONModern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
G. K. CHESTERTONIf men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
G. K. CHESTERTONThe poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
G. K. CHESTERTONTolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
G. K. CHESTERTONGod is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe past is not what it was.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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