The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
G. K. CHESTERTONGod is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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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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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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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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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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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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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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