One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
G. K. CHESTERTONWhen belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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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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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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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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