I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
G. K. CHESTERTONWe make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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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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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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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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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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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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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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