Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
G. K. CHESTERTONTolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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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.
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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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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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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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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 don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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