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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?

G. K. Chesterton

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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 issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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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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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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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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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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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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