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.
G. K. CHESTERTONIf there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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 real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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 riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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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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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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