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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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 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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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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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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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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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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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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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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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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