To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
G. K. CHESTERTONFaith means believing the unbelievable.
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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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