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G K Chesterton Tuesday

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

———- G K Chesterton

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G K Chesterton Tuesday

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 that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

———– G. K. Chesterton

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G K Chesterton Tuesday

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

———– G. K. Chesterton

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G K Chesterton Tuesday

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

———– G. K. Chesterton

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G K Chesterton Tuesday

A stiff apology is a second insult… The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

———– G. K. Chesterton

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G K Chesterton Tuesday

“Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.”

———– G. K. Chesterton

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