Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
G. K. CHESTERTONIt is always the secure who are humble.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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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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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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