Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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