The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

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The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

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The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

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Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

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Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

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