Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
G. K. CHESTERTONI 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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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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We 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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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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The past is not what it was.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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