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.
G. K. CHESTERTONNo man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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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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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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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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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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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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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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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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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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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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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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