These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONCatholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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