A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
G. K. CHESTERTONFor when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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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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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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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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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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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 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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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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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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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