I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
G. K. CHESTERTONGratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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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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