If a rhinoceros were to enter this resteraunt now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I would be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.
Tag: G.K. Chesterton
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult, and not tried.
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.