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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: May 29
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
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Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.
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A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake but he is also bound to confess that a fortunate inferiority prevents him personally from making such mistakes.
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An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.
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Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.
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All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
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By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.
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I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to hide in the background. I have seen a great deal of patriotism and I have generally found it the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich and benefits nobody else.
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Faith is always at a disadvantage it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.
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Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, I will not hit you if you do not hit me there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, We must not hit each other in the holy place.
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A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who had the slightest objection in international matters to removing his neighbour's landmark.
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It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because it is a grave religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.
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There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.
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To be simple is the best thing in the world.
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You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.
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How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.
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St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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All things are from God and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.
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