Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G. K. CHESTERTONWe 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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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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 riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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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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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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