A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
G. K. CHESTERTONHell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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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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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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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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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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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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