I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONHope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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 society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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