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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Grateful Gratitude Life Live
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Doubtful Men Pilot
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Art Brain Spiritual
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Art Beautiful Beauty
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Catholic Glasses Wine
There are some desires that are not desirable.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Morality People Scandal
When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Failure Trouble World
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Brain Fall Minded Open
Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Clever Men Stupid
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Impose Philosophy Telephone
The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Apology Men Sorry
It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Believe Common Firsts Sense
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Fashion Health Men View
Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Accepting Doctrine Miracle
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Catholic Discipline Wall
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Believe Country Government People