A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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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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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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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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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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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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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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