Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.

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All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.

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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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We actually love ourselves more than we love joy.

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The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something - war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.

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The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn’t obeyed.

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And I will add this point of merely personal experience of humanity: when men have a real explanation they explain it, eagerly and copiously and in common speech, as Huxley freely gave it when he thought he had it. When they have no explanation to offer, they give short dignified replies, disdainful of the ignorance of the multitude.

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I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even by firebrands from the earth.

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There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.

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Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

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A faith is that which is able to survive a mood.

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

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There are no new ideas about female education.

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Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.

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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.

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The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

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A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

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If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

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It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.

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