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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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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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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But 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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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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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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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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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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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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