Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
G. K. CHESTERTONA society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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The past is not what it was.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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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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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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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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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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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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It is always the secure who are humble.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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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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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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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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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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