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When people impute special vic...

When people impute special vices to the Christian Church, they seem entirely to forget that the world (which is the only other thing there is) has these vices much more. The Church has been cruel; but the world has been much more cruel. The Church has plotted; but the world has plotted much more. The Church has been superstitious; but it has never been so superstitious as the world is when left to itself.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The modern world is full of th...

The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth; and their truth is pitiless. Thus some humanitarians only care for pity; and their pity (I am sorry to say) is often untruthful.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The great ideals of the past f...

The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind has not passed through the Middle Ages. Rather mankind has retreated from the Middle Ages in reaction and rout. The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Christianity, whatever else it...

Christianity, whatever else it is, is an explosion. Unless it is sensational there is simply no sense in it. Unless the Gospel sounds like a gun going off it has not been uttered at all.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Instead of looking at books an...

Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account, not in the least of a person with his hair parted in the middle or his hands clasped in appeal, but of an extraordinary being with lips of thunder and acts of lurid decision, flinging down tables, casting out devils, passing with the wild secrecy of the wind from mountain isolation to a sort of dreadful demagogy; a being who often acted like an angry god Ђ' and always like a god.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

If a man does not talk to hims...

If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Let us not decide what is good...

Let us not decide what is good, but let it be considered good not to decide it.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

There are no wise few. Every a...

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The rich are the scum of the e...

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

And Noah he often said to his ...

And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, 'I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine.'

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Atheism is indeed the most dar...

Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

It is still bad taste to be an...

It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

There is no bigot like the ath...

There is no bigot like the atheist.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The atheist is not interested ...

The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Progress is Providence without...

Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

There are arguments for atheis...

There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life; only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

I do not feel any contempt for...

I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Even in an empire of atheists ...

Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Somehow one can never manage t...

Somehow one can never manage to be an atheist.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

A change of opinions is almost...

A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

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