One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
G. K. CHESTERTONOne may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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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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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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