I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
G. K. CHESTERTONStick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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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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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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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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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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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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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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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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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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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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