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. CHESTERTONBut the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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