I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
G. K. CHESTERTONThose 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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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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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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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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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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