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The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.
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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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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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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As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood. When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.
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I will go forth as a real outlaw, he said, and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway and it will be counted a wilder crime.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.
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