Angels 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.
G. K. CHESTERTONModern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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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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The past is not what it was.
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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 whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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