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.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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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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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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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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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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