These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONAn adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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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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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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