It is always the secure who are humble.
G. K. CHESTERTONGratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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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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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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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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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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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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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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