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There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: May 29
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
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A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.
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I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.
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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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The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.
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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.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.
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Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.
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The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.
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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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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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