The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONWhen giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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 are some desires that are not desirable.
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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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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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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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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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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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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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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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