And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
G. K. CHESTERTONExactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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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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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of 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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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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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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Passion makes every detail important.
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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’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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