America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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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Passion makes every detail important.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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The past is not what it was.
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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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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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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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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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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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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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