Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Religion
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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.
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Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.
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People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.
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