Passion makes every detail important.
G. K. CHESTERTONI’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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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 belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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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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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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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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It is always the secure who are humble.
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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