Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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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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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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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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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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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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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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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.
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