The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
G. K. CHESTERTONThere is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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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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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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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 true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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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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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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