The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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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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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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