Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
G. K. CHESTERTONChristianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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It is always the secure who are humble.
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We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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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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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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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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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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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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