Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
G. K. CHESTERTONWe fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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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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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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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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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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