Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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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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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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The past is not what it was.
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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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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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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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