O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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