Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
G. K. CHESTERTONHow you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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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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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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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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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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