Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
G. K. CHESTERTONTolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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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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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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