We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
G. K. CHESTERTONWe are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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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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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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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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It is always the secure who are humble.
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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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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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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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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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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