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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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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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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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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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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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