You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
G. K. CHESTERTONWhen people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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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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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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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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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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