One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONLaughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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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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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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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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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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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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