Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
G. K. CHESTERTONA thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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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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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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