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.
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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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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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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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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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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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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[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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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