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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Faith, Inspiration, Common Sense

A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Faith, Moral, Sanity

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love, Faith, Religious

Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Faith, Believe, Inspiration
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Faith, Inspiration, Men

The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Faith, Inspiration, Simple

Man is at his tallest when he bows.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Faith, Men, Bows

It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To be at last in such secure innocence that one can juggle with the universe and the stars, to be so good that one can treat everything as a joke - that may be, perhaps, the real end and final holiday of human souls.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Faith, Stars, Real
"All Things Considered". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1908.

Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Faith, Inspiration, Men

It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour, ought to be made by us all, in contemplating every panoramic change in the long Vision we call life... "It is good for us to be here - it is good for us to be here", repeating itself eternally.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Faith, Inspiration, Long

At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all appearance, gone to the dogs? But, in each of these five cases, it was the dog that died.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Faith, Christian, Dog

The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic, of one man one house - this remains the real vision and magnet of mankind. The world may accept something more official and general, less human and intimate. But the world will be like a broken-hearted woman who makes a humdrum marriage because she may not make a happy one; Socialism may be the world's deliverance, but it is not the world's desire.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Faith, Real, Inspiration
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

A man will not roll in the snow for a stream of tendency by which all things fulfill the law of their being. He will not go without food in the name of something, not ourselves, that makes for righteousness. He will do things like this, or pretty nearly like this, under quite a different impulse. He will do these things when he is in love.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Faith, Inspiration, Men

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