God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
G. K. CHESTERTONHell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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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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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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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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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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