Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G. K. CHESTERTONWhen belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for 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 sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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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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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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