I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
G. K. CHESTERTONIt is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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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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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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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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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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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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