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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONIt’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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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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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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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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