The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
G. K. CHESTERTONBeing a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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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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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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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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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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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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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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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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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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