Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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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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