Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe 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.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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 a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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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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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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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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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 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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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