God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
G. K. CHESTERTONAmerica is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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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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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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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.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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