Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
G. K. CHESTERTONIt isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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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 essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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