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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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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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The test of happiness is 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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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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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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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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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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