The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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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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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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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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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.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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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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