Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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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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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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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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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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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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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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