Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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 words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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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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