Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
G. K. CHESTERTONModern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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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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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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