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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.

G. K. Chesterton

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Heart Mindset Object Open
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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Afraid Corruption Coward Devil Fake God Spiritual Stupidity
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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Absence Aware Mindset Presence
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Choice Deep Difficult Reality Right
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
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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God Life Man Sunset Touch Woman Work
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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Battle Divine Fight God Lose Oneself Perfection
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Faith Reality Reason Relationship Thinking
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Handle Serious Under
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself
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.
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Astonishment Brain Life Rise Spiritual Sun
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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Believe End Himself Man Problem Worst
The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Discover Essence Mom Nature Ourselves Religion

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