Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
G. K. CHESTERTONThere are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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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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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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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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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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