The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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