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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

G. K. Chesterton

Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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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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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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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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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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