The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
G. K. CHESTERTONOne sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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The past is not what it was.
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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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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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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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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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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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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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