The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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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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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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