The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.


G.K. Chesterton

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In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.
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All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost. ...E...
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Babies need not to be taught a trade, but to be introduced to a world. To put the matter shortly, wo...
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An historic institution, which never went right, is really quite much of a miracle as an institution...
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As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the...
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The paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings
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..."vers libre," (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a d...
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I do not deny, but strongly affirm, the right of the State to interfere to cure a great evil. I say ...
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To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ...
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It is quite certain that the skirt means female dignity, not female submission; it can be proved by ...
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On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the...
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The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accide...
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I had tried to be happy by telling myself that man is an animal, like any other which sought its mea...
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[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run...
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That a good man may have his back to the wall is no more than we knew already, but that God could ha...
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If Innocent is happy, it is because he is innocent. If he can defy the conventions, it is just becau...
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There is something sinister about putting a leprechaun in a workhouse. The only solid comfort is tha...
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Man may behold what ugliness he likes if he is sure that he will not worship it; but there are some ...
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If we are calm," replied the policeman, "it is the calm of organized resistance."
"Eh?" said Sy...
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Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed...
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As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No...
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I mean that we here are on the wrong side of the tapestry,' answered Father Brown. 'The things that ...
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens...
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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for edu...
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A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should ...
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A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A mode...
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, b...
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There is a limit to human charity," said Lady Outram, trembling all over.

"There is," sai...
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He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of c...
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Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being ...
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We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But wha...
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly,
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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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We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practica...
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He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's wha...
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If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
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The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautifu...
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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
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My country, right or wrong,” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperat...
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Can you not see, […] that fairy tales in their essence are quite solid and straightforward; but th...
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the things common to all men are more important than the things peculiar to any men. Ordinary things...
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The pessimists believe that the cosmos is a clock that is running down; the progressives believe it ...
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