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.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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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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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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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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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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The past is not what it was.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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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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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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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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