The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
G. K. CHESTERTONAnd when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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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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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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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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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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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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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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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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