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All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.
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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When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.
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A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
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One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.
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The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.
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Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative.
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Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
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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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Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If any one doubts this, let him sit down seriously and try to think blasphemous thoughts about Thor.
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Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.
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There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked.
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The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.
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It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.
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Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
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At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all appearance, gone to the dogs? But, in each of these five cases, it was the dog that died.
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It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them
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He said he didn't very well understand how George was going to sleep any more than he did now, seeing that there were only twenty-four hours in each day.
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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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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
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Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
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