For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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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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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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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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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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