The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
G. K. CHESTERTONWhen 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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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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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The past is not what it was.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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