When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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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.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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