The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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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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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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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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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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.
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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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