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.
G. K. CHESTERTONO God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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Journalism 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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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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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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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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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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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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