Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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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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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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