Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
G. K. CHESTERTONModern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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