When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
G. K. CHESTERTONAt 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.
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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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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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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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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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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 essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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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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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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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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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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