Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
G. K. CHESTERTONBeing a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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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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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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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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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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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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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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