Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
G. K. CHESTERTONWhen 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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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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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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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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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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It is always the secure who are humble.
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