God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe 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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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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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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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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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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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