I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
G. K. CHESTERTONNo man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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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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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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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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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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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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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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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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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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