Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONI never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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There 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.
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