Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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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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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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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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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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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 dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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