The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
G. K. CHESTERTONI believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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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It is always the secure who are humble.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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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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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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[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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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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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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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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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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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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