Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
G. K. CHESTERTONModern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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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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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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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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