Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
G. K. CHESTERTONA society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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.
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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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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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.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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