The test of happiness is gratitude.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONLaughter 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.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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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 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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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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