Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
G. K. CHESTERTONIdolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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Passion makes every detail important.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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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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