Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONParadox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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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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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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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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