Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes - Page 4

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

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  Years, Doctrine, Sin

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• humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle

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  Doors, Seriousness, Handle

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• When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what?

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  Names, Heaven, Belief

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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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  Integrity, Apology, Men

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• We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

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  Funny, Friendship, God

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Civilization, People, Islam

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• To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

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  Orthodoxy, Morality, Action

  "A short history of England". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1917.

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• It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.

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  Media, World, News

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• The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. it is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists.

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  Hurt, Men, People

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• Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

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  Spiritual, War, Men

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• I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.

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  Fighting, Men, Happy Marriage

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.

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  Law, People, Needs

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• Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.

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  Way, Revolution, Christianity

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• We're all in the same boat, and we're all seasick.

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  Boat

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• Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.

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  Men, Evil, Champion

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• You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.

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  Love, Fighting, Fighting On

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• An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

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  Inspirational, Life, Travel

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• Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

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  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Instant

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Men, Break, Ten

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• Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

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  Hope, Mean, Unbelievable Things

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• 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.

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  Ideas, Catholic, May

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• Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Peace

  Orthodoxy (1908) ch. 7

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• 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.

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  Strong, Morning, Father

  "Orthodoxy". Book by G. K. Chesterton (chapter IV), 1908.

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• No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.

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  Men, Might, Know How

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (1927). “The Secret of Father Brown”

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• A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.

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  Long, Amusement, Amused

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