We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
G. K. CHESTERTONIt [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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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 evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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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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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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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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