But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONI 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
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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A 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.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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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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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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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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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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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 Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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