There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONChristianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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