We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
G. K. CHESTERTONFaith means believing the unbelievable.
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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 object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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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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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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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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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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