The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
G. K. CHESTERTONIf there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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The past is not what it was.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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