When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
G. K. CHESTERTONThese are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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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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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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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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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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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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