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G. K. Chesterton

English author and Christian apologist

1874–1936

94 quotes, most often on Christianity, God and Truth & Lies. Part of the Writers collection.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
What’s Wrong With The World (1910), The Unfinished Temple
- Christianity
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
In The Illustrated London News (16 July 1910)
- Christianity
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
- Christianity
At least five times…with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist sceptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Faith has to all appearance gone to the dogs. In each of these five cases it was the dog that died.
The Everlasting Man
- Christianity
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted: precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.
- Christianity
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
In The Illustrated London News (11 August 1928)
- Christianity

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