Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe test of happiness is gratitude.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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 Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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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.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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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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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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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.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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