We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
G. K. CHESTERTONAgnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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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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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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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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The past is not what it was.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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