We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
G. K. CHESTERTONIdolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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 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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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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We 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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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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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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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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