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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.

G. K. Chesterton

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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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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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