Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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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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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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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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