Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
G. K. CHESTERTONFaith means believing the unbelievable.
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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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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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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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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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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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