We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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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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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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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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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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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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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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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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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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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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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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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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