The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe test of happiness is gratitude.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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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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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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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 word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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