There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
G. K. CHESTERTONAmerica is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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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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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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