There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
G. K. CHESTERTONAmerica is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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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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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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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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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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