The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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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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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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