The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
G. K. CHESTERTONI’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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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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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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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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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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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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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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The past is not what it was.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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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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When 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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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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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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Passion makes every detail important.
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