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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONWe’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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