Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe 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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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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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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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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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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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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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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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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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”.
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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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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