Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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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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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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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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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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