God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
G. K. CHESTERTONA society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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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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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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