We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
G. K. CHESTERTONIt is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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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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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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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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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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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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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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