The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDaybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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