Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOriginal sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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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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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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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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