Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
G. K. CHESTERTONBeing a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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The past is not what it was.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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