We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
G. K. CHESTERTONHell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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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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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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