God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
G. K. CHESTERTONAnd when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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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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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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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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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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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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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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