I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
G. K. CHESTERTONIdolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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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.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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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’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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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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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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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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Passion makes every detail important.
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