Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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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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But 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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