Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
G. K. CHESTERTONGod is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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The past is not what it was.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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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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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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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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