There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
G. K. CHESTERTONAngels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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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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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.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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