A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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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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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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