Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThese are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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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.
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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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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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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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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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.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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