With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. Gilbert K. Chesterton More Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton More Quotes From Gilbert K. Chesterton The things we see every day are the things we never see at all. Gilbert K. Chesterton A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is. Gilbert K. Chesterton catholic may ideas Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength. Gilbert K. Chesterton hope long mean The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children. Gilbert K. Chesterton family prayer christian The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous. Gilbert K. Chesterton girl beautiful love A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation. Gilbert K. Chesterton theologian revelations divine-revelation The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science. Gilbert K. Chesterton theology temples people Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers. Gilbert K. Chesterton balance pieces men If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) . Gilbert K. Chesterton perfectionism not-perfect inspirational Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink. Gilbert K. Chesterton alcohol wine mistake When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything. Gilbert K. Chesterton believe-in-god men believe It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle. Gilbert K. Chesterton causes real profound The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. Gilbert K. Chesterton always-trying health science Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon. Gilbert K. Chesterton dragons baby children The test of happiness is gratitude. Gilbert K. Chesterton gratitude tests christian All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. Gilbert K. Chesterton bad-ass sunset art Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem". Gilbert K. Chesterton women spiritual long The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. Gilbert K. Chesterton literature mouths mind Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. Gilbert K. Chesterton humor business funny An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. Gilbert K. Chesterton inspirational funny travel
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