For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
G. K. CHESTERTONI am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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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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The past is not what it was.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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