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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.

The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Long, God Love, One Love

Thanks are the highest form of thought.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Thank You, Gratitude, Appreciation
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Government, Abolish
"Christendom in Dublin" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, (Ch. III), 1932.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Christmas, Gratitude, Children

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Drinking, Alcohol, Literature
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

How much larger your life would be if you were smaller in it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Christian, Christian Inspirational, Would Be

The more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Certain
Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Divine Revelation, Revelations, Theologian

Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Sacrifice, Animal, Worship

At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Spiritual, Art, Brain

What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Self, Criticism, Excess
"Sidelights on New London and Newer New York : And Other Essays". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1932.

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Real, Men, Greatness
1906 Charles Dickens, ch.1.

Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Modern, Authority, Accepting
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

There is no such thing as education. The thing is merely a loose phrase for the passing on to others of whatever truth or virtue we happen to have ourselves. It is typical of our time that the more doubtful we are about the value of philosophy, the more certain we are about the value of education. That is to say, the more doubtful we are about whether we have any truth, the more certain we are (apparently) that we can teach it to our children.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Children, Philosophy, Passing On

If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Morality, Modern, Strengthening
"By What Definition is Gavin Newsom’s Sex Life 'Breaking News'?" by Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 2007.

We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Earthquakes, Sun, Wonder

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Inspirational, Inspiring, Peace
Orthodoxy (1908) ch. 7

Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Believe, People, Tolerance

Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Atheist, Optimism, Miracle

Faith means believing the unbelievable.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Hope, Believe, Mean

Why do all the clerks and navvies in the railway trains look so sad and tired, so very sad and tired? I will tell you. It is because they know that the train is going right. It is because they know that whatever place they have taken a ticket for that place they will reach. It is because after they have passed Sloane Square they know that the next station must be Victoria, and nothing but Victoria. Oh, their wild rapture! oh, their eyes like stars and their souls again in Eden, if the next station were unaccountably Baker Street!

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Stars, Taken, Tired
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Fists, Posture

Passion makes every detail important.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Passion, Important, Details

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Art, Lying, Long
Tremendous Trifles (1909) "On Lying in Bed"

It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the deserving is not charity at all, but justice. It is the undeserving who require it, and the ideal either does not exist at all, or exists wholly for them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Mean, Justice, Charity
Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

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