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. CHESTERTONDo not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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 are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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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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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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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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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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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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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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