One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
G. K. CHESTERTONLying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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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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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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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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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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