We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
G. K. CHESTERTONStick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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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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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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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’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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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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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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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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