One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe 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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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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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 most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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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 golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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The past is not what it was.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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