Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
G. K. CHESTERTONTruth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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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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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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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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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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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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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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