Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
G. K. CHESTERTONChristianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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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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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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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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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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