God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
G. K. CHESTERTONPassion makes every detail important.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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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 things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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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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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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