If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
G. K. CHESTERTONCIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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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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