Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONIt is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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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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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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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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