"Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried."

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Source : "Points of friction". Book by Agnes Repplier, "Consolations of the Conservative", 1920.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#Wisdom Quotes #Fear Quotes #Religion Quotes

“I'm attracted to playing things that I find difficult, just because it's a journey that is much more interesting.”
“It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?”
“There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life.”

Source : Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”
“Iâ€™m not a patriot to a flag, Iâ€™m a patriot to a land.”
“You will have fewer regrets in life if you start focusing and taking responsiblity for where you are and where you want to be.”
“Then I went to bed and cried into my pillow. I wasn't sad, not at all. It was just so beautiful to have an intense feeling and the right words at the same time. What are we but our stories?”

Source : James Patterson (2004). “Sam's letters to Jennifer”
“In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.”
“I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms. . . Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of superiority.”

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