The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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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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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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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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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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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