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
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONTolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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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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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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