Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
G. K. CHESTERTONI 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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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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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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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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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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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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