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.
G. K. CHESTERTONUnless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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