Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
G. K. CHESTERTONChristianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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 past is not what it was.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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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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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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