Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
G. K. CHESTERTONPassion makes every detail important.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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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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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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 believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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