The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
G. K. CHESTERTONA dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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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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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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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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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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