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.
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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The past is not what it was.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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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 extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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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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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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