Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G. K. CHESTERTONThere are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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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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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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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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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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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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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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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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