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. CHESTERTONYou cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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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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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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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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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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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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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 need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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