Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONTruth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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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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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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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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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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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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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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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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