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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.

G. K. Chesterton

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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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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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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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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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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 way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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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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