Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
G. K. CHESTERTONReason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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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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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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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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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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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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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 most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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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 riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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