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. CHESTERTONParadox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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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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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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