I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
G. K. CHESTERTONThanks are the highest form of thought.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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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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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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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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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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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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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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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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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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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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