Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThanks are the highest form of thought.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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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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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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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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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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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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