Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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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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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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