God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
G. K. CHESTERTONModern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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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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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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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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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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