We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
G. K. CHESTERTONArt, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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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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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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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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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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