Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
G. K. CHESTERTONChristianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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