The past is not what it was.
G. K. CHESTERTONThese are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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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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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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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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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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