The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
G. K. CHESTERTONO 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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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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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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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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