Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
G. K. CHESTERTONUnless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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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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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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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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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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