Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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