Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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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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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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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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Lying 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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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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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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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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