The test of happiness is gratitude.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONHope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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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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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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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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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 are some desires that are not desirable.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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