Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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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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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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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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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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