Thanks are the highest form of thought.
G. K. CHESTERTONBut the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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.
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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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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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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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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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