Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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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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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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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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The past is not what it was.
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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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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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Those 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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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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