Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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 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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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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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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