Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
G. K. CHESTERTONIdolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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