There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONProgress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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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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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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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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