Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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