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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.

G. K. Chesterton

I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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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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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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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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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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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 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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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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