I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
G. K. CHESTERTONVariability 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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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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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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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 evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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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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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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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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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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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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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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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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