God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
G. K. CHESTERTONJournalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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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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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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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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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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