Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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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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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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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