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“All of them. . . had seemed to live in a world where compassion was not necessary. He saw now that it the very first necessity, always and everywhere, and should flow between all men, always and everywhere. Men lived with their nearest and dearest and knew little of them, and strangers passing by in the street were as impersonal as trees walking, and all the while there was this deep affinity, for all men suffered.”
― Elizabeth Goudge, The Dean's Watch

“I never said it was always wrong to enter fairyland. I only said it was always dangerous.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Father Brown: Essential Tales

“The misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power forever.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol: The Original 1843 Edition

“It was too easy to die for what was good or beautiful, for home or children or a civilization—it needed a God to die for the half-hearted and the corrupt.”
― Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory