The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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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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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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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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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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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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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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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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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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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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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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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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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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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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