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.
G. K. CHESTERTONNo man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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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 real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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