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.
G. K. CHESTERTONOne sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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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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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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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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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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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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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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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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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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