When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONI 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
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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