If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
G. K. CHESTERTONAll men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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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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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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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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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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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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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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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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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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