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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

G. K. Chesterton

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Acceptance Agreement Authority Funny Intelligence
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Establishment Myself Religion Rule Wild
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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Fear God Man Scare Thinking
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Double Gratitude Happiness Wonder
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.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Complain Evolution Pretend Thinking Weird
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Boat Sick Togetherness
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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Boat Each Other Loyalty Terrible
[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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Inspirational Limitation Money Pay Society
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”.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Avoid Goodness Requirement Virtue Wife Woman Yourself
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Atheist Believe Choice God Man Mindset
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Grace Grant Gratitude
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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Call Escape Fashion Leaving Tradition
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Children Extraordinary Family Magic Ordinary Woman
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Deep Mistake Truth Understand

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