An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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