To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
G. K. CHESTERTONAmerica is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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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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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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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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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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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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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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