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.
G. K. CHESTERTONTolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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 may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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The past is not what it was.
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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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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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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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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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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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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