These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
G. K. CHESTERTONThere are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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