Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
G. K. CHESTERTONBut the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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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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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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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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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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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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