Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
G. K. CHESTERTONBut 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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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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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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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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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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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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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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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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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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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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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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