The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
G. K. CHESTERTONHell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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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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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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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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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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