We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
G. K. CHESTERTONWhenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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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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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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