Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
G. K. CHESTERTONIf men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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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 most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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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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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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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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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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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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