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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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Believe People Tolerance
Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Artist Wisdom Wise
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
But 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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Believe Country Government People
Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Doctrine Sin Year
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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Matter Want Writing
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Beautiful Girl Love
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Boat Same Seasick
A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Crow Duality Thorn
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Doubtful Men Pilot
It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

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

Common Faith Inspiration Sense
When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Failure Trouble World
Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Believe Fear Running
Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Dark Flower Sky
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

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