A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONI 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.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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 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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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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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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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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