G.K. Chesterton (27)
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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
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.
Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of the opening of the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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.
For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.
The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by ten thousand commandments.
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.
Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. 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 necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got 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.
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
The special mark of the modern world is not that it is sceptical, but that it is dogmatic without knowing it.
What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction; where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert-himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt-the Divine Reason.Orthodoxy, p. 55
The first effect of not believing in God is to believe in anything.
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But there is one thing that is infinitely more absurd and unpractical than burning a man for his philosophy. This is the habit of saying that his philosophy does not matter, and this is done universally in the twentieth century. Heretics(7)
Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert-himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt-the Divine Reason.... We are on the road to productin g a race of man too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table. Orthodoxy (31-32)
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