There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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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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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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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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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