Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
G. K. CHESTERTONFor when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship 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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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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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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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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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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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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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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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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