The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
G. K. CHESTERTONNo man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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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 way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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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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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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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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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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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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It is always the secure who are humble.
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