Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThese are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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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
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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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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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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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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