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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

G. K. Chesterton

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?
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Children Gratitude Ourselves Time
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Establishment Myself Religion Rule Wild
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Astonishment Brain Life Rise Spiritual Sun
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Man Philosophy Secret Understand
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See
CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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Civilization Communication Judgement Speed
We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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Deep Media Silence Validation
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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Deep Desire Enough Philosophy
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Handle Serious Under
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Education Man School Time
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Children Extraordinary Family Magic Ordinary Woman

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