You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that Islam itself was only an aggressive raid against the old and ordered civilization in these parts. I do not say it in mere hostility to the religion of Mahomet; I am fully conscious of many values and virtues in it; but certainly it was Islam that was the invasion and Christendom that was the thing invaded.
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God
Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun.; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic monotony that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.
We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.
They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of working men, but they adore humanity. Only they always speak of humanity as if it were a curious foreign nation. They are dividing themselves more and more from men to exalt the strange race of mankind. They are ceasing to be human in the effort to be humane.
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.
One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.
We're all in the same boat, and we're all seasick.
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
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