It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONBut 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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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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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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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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