For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
G. K. CHESTERTONYou’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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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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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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