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.
G. K. CHESTERTONIf there were no God, there would be no atheists.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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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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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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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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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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It is always the secure who are humble.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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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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Passion makes every detail important.
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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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