When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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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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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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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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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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