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.
G. K. CHESTERTONA really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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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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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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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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