The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
G. K. CHESTERTONO 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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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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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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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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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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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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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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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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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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