CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
G. K. CHESTERTONPassion makes every detail important.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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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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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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