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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

G. K. Chesterton

The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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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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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know 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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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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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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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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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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