To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
G. K. CHESTERTONModern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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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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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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