One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
G. K. CHESTERTONWe’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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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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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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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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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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The past is not what it was.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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