Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThanks are the highest form of thought.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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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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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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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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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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