The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
G. K. CHESTERTONMarriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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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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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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The past is not what it was.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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