It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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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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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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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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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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