We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe 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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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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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.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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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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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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