God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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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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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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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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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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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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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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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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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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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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