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.
G. K. CHESTERTONIf men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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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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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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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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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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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 belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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 riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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The 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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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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