We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
G. K. CHESTERTONTolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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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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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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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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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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