It is always the secure who are humble.
G. K. CHESTERTONAn adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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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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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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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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