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.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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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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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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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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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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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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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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