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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Birthday Book Writing
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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Entirely Men School Stake
Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Dog Funny Spiritual
The test of happiness is gratitude.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Christian Gratitude Test
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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Believe Country Government People
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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Art Brain Spiritual
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Boat Same Seasick
Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Atheism Heaven Nihilism
There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Goes Intelligent Trying
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Beautiful Girl Love
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Men Running Thinking
It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Apologetic Arguing Men
But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Appearance Dog Gone
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
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Church Need Thinking
There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Life Men Principles
There are some desires that are not desirable.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Morality People Scandal