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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

G. K. Chesterton

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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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