Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
G. K. CHESTERTON
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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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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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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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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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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