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Turn Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are…
- Without authority there is no liberty. Freedom is doomed to destruction at every turn, unless there is a recognized right to freedom. And if there…
- Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers;…
- The modern world has far too little understanding of the art of keeping young. Its notion of progress has been to pile one thing on…
- When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what?
- If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward…
- It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then…
- We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the…
- We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.
- My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.
- Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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