The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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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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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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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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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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