When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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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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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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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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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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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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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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