When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
G. K. CHESTERTONYou’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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The past is not what it was.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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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 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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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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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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