Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
G. K. CHESTERTONRight is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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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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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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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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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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The past is not what it was.
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