Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
G. K. CHESTERTONThere are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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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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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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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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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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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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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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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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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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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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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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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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