Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThanks are the highest form of thought.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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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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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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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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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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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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