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"To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny."
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"There are two paths that you must never leave in your life: The path of peace and the path of reason!"
"Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved."
"It is a simple tale, but its message is an enduring one: virtue and generosity will be rewarded in ways that one cannot know."
"When we go through life believing that we need mercy, we're more likely to extend it. As humans our tendency is to want justice for others, but mercy for ourselves. It doesn't work that way. We reap what we sow. (Galatians 6:7) And the timing isn't ours-it's God's. He often extends us mercy, not when we are well behaved, but when we are miserable, helpless, wicked, ungodly, and powerless. Even when we bring on our problems by our own choices, His mercy comes when we cry for it. To refuse to cry for it because we feel unworthy, is a win for Satan."
"My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."
"True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety."
"Our character develops with endurance of every circumstance."
"In the sense of Lewis, I am a moderately 'good man'."
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"It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down."
"When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door."
"A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams."
"The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work."
"We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful."
"As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles."
"There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice."
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