Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
G. K. CHESTERTONIf I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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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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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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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 a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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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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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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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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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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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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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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