We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
G. K. CHESTERTONThere’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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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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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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The past is not what it was.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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