I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
G. K. CHESTERTONFaith means believing the unbelievable.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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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 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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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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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 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 real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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