The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
G. K. CHESTERTONI 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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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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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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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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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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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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