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I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right
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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With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
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We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
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Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are - of immeasurable stature.
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The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'
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No man can be merry unless he is serious.
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An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.
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Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.
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When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.
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A man cannot deserve adventures he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.
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I believe in preaching to the converted for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.
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Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.
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Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
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Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.
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Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.
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Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings but they dream of being shepherds.
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The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.
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Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
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If Christianity should happen to be true - that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe - then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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