America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
G. K. CHESTERTONIdolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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