Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
G. K. CHESTERTONYou cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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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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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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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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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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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 whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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