The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONI agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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