Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish … - Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear. . .

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.

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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.

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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.

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You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.

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On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but of the dawn.

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