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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 Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.
What I Saw In America
All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
- God
- Science
If my children wake up on Christmas morning and have someone to thank for putting candy in their stocking, have I no one to thank for putting two feet in mine?
- God
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
“The Book of Job: An introduction”, in Putnam’s Monthly (June 1907) p. 356, col. 1
- God
Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God.
Christendom in Dublin (1932), Ch. III: Very Christian Democracy
- God
- Government

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