We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
G. K. CHESTERTONWhen 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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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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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 main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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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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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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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 poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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