Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G. K. CHESTERTONRight is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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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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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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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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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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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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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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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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