If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
G. K. CHESTERTONModern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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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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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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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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We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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