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. CHESTERTONDo not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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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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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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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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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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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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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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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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