When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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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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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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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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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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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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