Tag: Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
Gilbert K. Chesterton