If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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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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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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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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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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