America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
G. K. CHESTERTONLying 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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The past is not what it was.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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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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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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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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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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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 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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