Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G. K. CHESTERTONWhen it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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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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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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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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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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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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