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.
G. K. CHESTERTONI believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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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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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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