The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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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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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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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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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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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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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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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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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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