Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
G. K. CHESTERTONGratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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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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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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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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It is always the secure who are humble.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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The past is not what it was.
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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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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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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of 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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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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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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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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