A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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The past is not what it was.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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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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