For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
G. K. CHESTERTONWithout education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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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.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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A 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.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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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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