Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
G. K. CHESTERTONA really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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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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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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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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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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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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