Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G. K. CHESTERTONNothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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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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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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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.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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