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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Common Faith Inspiration Sense
All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Men Secret Sublime
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
The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Christian Mass Reckless
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Doubtful Men Pilot
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Modern Silence Tyranny
There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Goes Intelligent Trying
Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Clever Men Stupid
Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Believe Fear Running
Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Food Important Science
The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Apology Men Sorry
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
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Hate Ignorance People You
The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Error Final Human
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Boat Same Seasick