God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
G. K. CHESTERTONFor when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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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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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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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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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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