When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
G. K. CHESTERTONTruth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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