It is always the secure who are humble.
G. K. CHESTERTONIf there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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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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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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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.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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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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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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