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The thing I hate about an arg...

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

A Catholic is a person who ha...

A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

At the back of our brains is ...

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.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

O God of earth and altar, Bo...

O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Modern toleration is really a...

Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

I am not absentminded. It is ...

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

When people talk as if the Cr...

When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that Islam itself was only an aggressive raid against the old and ordered civilization in these parts. I do not say it in mere hostility to the religion of Mahomet; I am fully conscious of many values and virtues in it; but certainly it was Islam that was the invasion and Christendom that was the thing invaded.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Original sin is the only doct...

Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

It is true that there is a th...

It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the deserving is not charity at all, but justice. It is the undeserving who require it, and the ideal either does not exist at all, or exists wholly for them.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

We need to be reminded more t...

We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

We fear men so much, because ...

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Reason is itself a matter of ...

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

When men choose not to believ...

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Thanks are the highest form o...

Thanks are the highest form of thought.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The most extraordinary thing ...

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The State did not own men so ...

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.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

No man can break any of the T...

No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

But perhaps God is strong eno...

But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun.; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic monotony that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

We should always endeavor to ...

We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

There are no uninteresting th...

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

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